Tridactyl: Binding <C-n> doesn't work

[smoothchrome]

I bound the following à la Pentadactyl:
<C-p> tabprev
<C-n> tabnext

<C-p> works fine and overrides the default Firefox keybinding (Print), but <C-n> doesn't and instead of tabnext it does the default Firefox keybind (New Window).

Tridactyl 1.14.0-8-gf35370a
Firefox 60.2.0 (ESR)

[bovine3dom]

It's a reserved keybind, unfortunately. The only thing we can do is find/file a bug with Mozilla and hope they look kindly on us #760.

[bovine3dom]

If you're on Linux, you could just use xkeysnail - https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail - to rebind Ctrl-p to Ctrl-tab, and Ctrl-n to Ctrl-shift-tab. It would work on more pages than gt anyway : )

[smoothchrome]

If you're on Linux, you could just use xkeysnail - https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail - to rebind Ctrl-p to Ctrl-tab, and Ctrl-n to Ctrl-shift-tab. It would work on more pages than gt anyway : )

Thanks, that's a great workaround!

[ardrabczyk]

I've also tried to remap C-n in https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/pull/135 and didn't know how to do that but today I use method I found at http://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/web/firefox-quantum-fixing-ctrl-w.html. You need to kill firefox, extract browser/omni.ja to temporary directory and modify chrome/en-US/locale/browser/browser.dtd. For example, to disable C-n replace

<!ENTITY newNavigatorCmd.key "N">

with

<!ENTITY newNavigatorCmd.key "">

New repack omni.ja:

zip -qr9XD omni.ja *

and copy it to browser directory. I've also disabled C-p and C-[ and C-w, the full diff is:

< <!ENTITY printCmd.commandkey "p">
---
> <!ENTITY printCmd.commandkey "">
374c374
< <!ENTITY newNavigatorCmd.key        "N">
---
> <!ENTITY newNavigatorCmd.key        "">
765c765
< <!ENTITY goBackCmd.commandKey "[">
---
> <!ENTITY goBackCmd.commandKey "">
773c773
< <!ENTITY closeCmd.key                   "W">
---
> <!ENTITY closeCmd.key                   "">

Now C-w works normally in tridactyl command line, probably because I use Emacs mode in GTK config and it's possible to assign commands to C-n and C-p keybindings:

bind --mode=ex <C-n> ex.next_history
bind --mode=ex <C-p> ex.prev_history
bind --mode=normal <C-p> tabprev
bind --mode=normal <C-n> tabnext