Change Firefox menu shortcuts with Menu Wizard

Menu Wizard is a handy browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that you can use to hide or move menu items. It supports the Firefox menu bar (not displayed anymore by default), the tab and main context menu, and the bookmarks bar by default so that you can customize what is displayed and how it is displayed in the browser.

For instance, if you never pin tabs in the browser or use the "close other tabs" option when you right-click on tabs in Firefox, then you may consider removing those options from the context menu to streamline it.

You can read my full review of the Menu Wizard extension here for additional information on how it works and what it supports.

What I have not mentioned in the review back then is that you can also use it to modify menu shortcuts in Firefox.

Many menus in Firefox can not only be accessed with the mouse but also with keyboard shortcuts. You can open the Downloads dialog with Ctrl-J for instance, or open a new tab with Ctrl-T.

As is the case with menu items, it is likely that you don't make use of them all. In addition, there may be some shortcuts that you may want to customize.

Maybe you want to modify a shortcut because you hit it accidentally from time to time or because you feel that you cannot access it fast enough.

After you have installed the add-on in Firefox you can open all of the customization option it makes available in the add-ons manager, by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Alt-m, or by hitting Alt to display the menu and selecting Tools > Menu Wizard.

A click on the keyboard icon on the configuration page displays the shortcuts. What's interesting here is that it highlights any potential conflict as you can see on the screenshot above.

You can disable a shortcut with a click or modify the keys used to invoke it instead if you prefer that.  It is even possible to disable all shortcuts with a single click if that is what you want to do.

Note: Add-ons like Customize Shortcuts have been designed specifically for the editing of browser shortcuts. Unlike Menu Wizard, they don't limit the available shortcuts to menu items which means that you can use them to edit more shortcuts.

The option to edit shortcuts using Menu Wizard can be quite handy, especially for users who use the add-on anyway.