If you're on Windows, you can do something like this with AutoHotkey:
; Make alt-q in Firefox type ctrl-l followed by "% "
#IfWinActive ,ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
!q::Send, ^l`%{Space}
#IfWinActive
Re:Firefox 79
by sbierwagen on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:02PM
(#23980049)
What keyboard layout are you on that puts % on 6?
That was Shift+5, not 6. Thanks for pointing that out :)
Tip: You don’t need to type the space. For example, you can search for “%ycom” to see open https://news.ycombinator.com/ tabs.
- Ctrl-L to go to the address bar
- release Ctrl (otherwise, the next keypress fail)
- Shift-6 to type "%" in the address bar
- space
- [your query and hit tab/enter to navigate results]
The last bullet is a close to ideal, native search among open tabs and make it so smooth to find an opened tab among dozens. But the key presses necessary to get there? Who can use that without weekly hospital stays for finger RSIs?
I love firefox. If someone, somewhere reads this, please please please think of simpler key presses to use this nice, already built functionality.
(I know non-native extensions provide similar feature. But native would be so cool and stable, especially that it's already built).