How to change Mozilla Firefox quit shortcut?

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I'm using Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu(version - 39.0) I want to change the quit short-cut which is currently Ctrl+Q.. To some other keys, because sometime while closing tabs with Ctrl+W., I accidentally close my firefox.

How can I change it in my system? Is there any way to do it?

I might be missing something, but I just tested every combination of browser.tabs.warnOnClose, browser.warnOnQuit and browser.showQuitWarning, and still no dialog showed up when closing a window with multiple tabs, either by clicking the close button or by hitting Ctrl+Q. I'm using Firefox 60.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. So I guess there's not much one can do apart from using extensions... — waldyrious, May 23 '18 at 13:04
You could also disable Ctrl+Q system-wide: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1919/how-can-i-disable-ctrlq-for-all-applications-system-wide — caw, May 31 '18 at 22:12
As of Firefox 87 (March 2021), you can finally disable the Ctrl+Q shortcut, by going to about:config and setting browser.quitShortcut.disabled to true. Note that this will only apply after restarting the broswer. Thanks to @evilpie who contributed that solution to this answer! — waldyrious, Sep 08 '21 at 16:00
Ah, but that does not disable Ctrl+Shift+Q. Q being right next to TAB :'( — john v kumpf, Jun 03 '22 at 18:34
For me (Firefox 113) browser.quitShortcut.disabled worked, but only took effect after restarting Firefox. There is also browser.warnOnQuitShortcut, which seems to take effect immediately. — EM0, May 24 '23 at 19:19
browser.warnOnQuitShortcut should default to True. Thanks for that, @EM0. — mbuc91, Aug 17 '23 at 12:45

meuh · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-08T16:53:04.260

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Firefox offers no built-in editor for key bindings.

A solution exists to disable the shortcut starting with version Firefox 87, as given in the comments above by waldyrious. Thanks to Firefox developer Tom Schuster (user evilpie) and the patch to the 20 year-old bugzilla we have the updated answer on superuser, reproduced here:

In about:config set the preference

browser.quitShortcut.disabled true

and restart the browser for it to take effect.

edited Sep 08 '21 at 16:53

answered Jul 21 '15 at 08:09

meuh

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keybinder appears to be a successor to the discontinued Customizable Shortcuts: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keybinder/ – Dror S. Aug 02 '16 at 09:29
Keybinder works for me as well. – Damian Yerrick Dec 25 '16 at 21:33
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Check that: Keybinder will stop working permanently as of Firefox 57 per a note posted to the front page of the official repository. – Damian Yerrick Aug 30 '17 at 01:34
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Do you know of a solution for FF >= 57? – kralyk Nov 16 '17 at 13:17
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Any solutions nor 2018? Customizable Shortcuts is disappeared. – ZK Zhao May 21 '18 at 12:40
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The described solution works in FF 92. After setting the option you can use ctrl+q to stop the browser and once it starts again it should be fine :) – Martin Kunev Jul 29 '22 at 19:41

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '18 at 06:52

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To disable the shortcut without installing extensions:

Type about:config in the address bar
Type browser.showQuitWarning in the search field
Change the value to true

answered Jan 11 '18 at 06:52

Matthew

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It does not work when you use the feature "Show my windows and tabs from last time" - source bugzilla – Feb 22 '18 at 16:48
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This solution is the only one that actually works for the latest Firefox Quantum (suggested extensions are not compatible or are discontinued) – Hamman Samuel Apr 21 '18 at 02:12

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

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Firefox does not allow changing shortcut keys out of the box (not even in About:config).

As far as I know, you have two options:

For only disabling ctrl+q, you can use the very simple Disable ctrl-q extension.
For customizing other shortcuts, including ctrl+q, you can install Menu Wizard. To use it, access Tools->Menu Wizard and click the keyboard icon on the top right (in LTR layout) to display the list of shortcuts and select a new one.

Note: the Customizable Shortcuts extension mentioned in the previous answer was discontinued and removed by its author (although the source code can still be found on github). Edit 2016-08-02: the add-on keybinder seems to be a successor to Customizable Shortcuts, although I haven't tried it personally.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

Community

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answered Jan 27 '16 at 13:47

Dror S.

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I tried Ctrl+Q and Alt+F4 for File->Exit in Menu Wizard. But FF ignores these shortcuts and does not quit. I tried Key Binder, but this add-on does not show Quit or Exit in its shorcut list. – Aleksey F. Jun 27 '16 at 08:11
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I'm slightly confused by this statement - those shortcuts are Firefox's default, and this questions was discussing how to disable them. You don't need to do anything to enable them, AFAIK... – Dror S. Jun 27 '16 at 09:01
The "Exit" action is really absent in FF 47.0. When I sent a screenshot, Gregorio Litenstein, the developer of Keybinder, pointed me out to this add-on. Only after installing it, the "Exit" action appears in the "Other" category of Keybinder. – Aleksey F. Jun 28 '16 at 08:51

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 19:12

I use Xubuntu, but plain Ubuntu probably has a similar function. Because Firefox itself does not allow to change the Ctrl-Q shortcut, I decided to steal that key combination away from Firefox.

The system gets keystrokes before applications do, so I used the Settings/Keyboard/Application shortcuts to define Ctrl-Q to start some non obtrusive application. I chose the Whisker application menu, but pick whatever. And look: even when Firefox has focus, Ctrl-Q does not reach it.

This blocks ctl-Q, but doesn't provide an alternative. – Adam Mar 22 '17 at 21:05 — Adam, Mar 22 '17 at 21:05

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 28 '18 at 17:00

On Linux with Firefox Quantum, there is currently a bug that prevents extensions and explicit configuration from changing a builtin shortcut such as ctrl-Q. A workaround is to block it at the system level by e.g. installing the script from https://github.com/sasawat/firefox-ctrl-q-workaround and assigning it as the action of ctrl-Q as a global shortcut.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 10 '17 at 21:58

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In the electrolysis era I have come to rely on menu wizard to modify existing firefox hotkeys. It is a bit overkill since it also changes menu items, but seems to work well and is compatible.

answered Sep 10 '17 at 21:58

groceryheist

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