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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by MollyRealized on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:58PM (#34747806)
I have to say, I miss Keyconfig SO badly.
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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by metadat on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:32PM (#34748086)
I'd never heard of KeyConfig. It was a keyboard customizer extension:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyconfig_extension

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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by ashtonabc on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:45PM (#34748216)
Keyconfig and other legacy extensions are still available for modern Firefox with a modified userChromeJS: https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master...
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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by cycomanic on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:46PM (#34749061)
For thunderbird there is tbkeys which is the spiritual successor. I use it to implement mutt like keybindings.
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