Add convenient keyboard shortcuts for easier migration from Arc browser

Brave Feature Requests
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As the subject suggests, in order to make it easier to move from Arc to Brave I would really like to see all the very handy keyboard shortcuts from Arc implemented in Brave. For instance (on MacOS):

  • Add keyboard shortcut shift+cmd+C to copy URL
  • Reopen recently closed tab with cmd+Z

I know there are more really handy shortcuts in Arc, but these are the ones I really miss when moving to Brave. Thanks!

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Oh! I just found where I can customize the copy URL shortcut, nice!
brave://settings/system/shortcuts

Update: it doesn’t seem to work though since opening the developer inspection window is using that shortcut (shift+cmd+C) per default. I think this should be removed and used for copying URLs per default instead. Is there a way to remove the keyboard shortcut for the dev inspection window?

Update 2: Regarding being able to remove default shortcuts: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/39206

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You can remove it manually as you can see from the screenshot above.

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I don’t see that icon there, not by any other shortcut either. I can only choose to go back to the default shortcuts if I have created my own.

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Hovering over the shortcut doesn’t bring up the icon?

I went to the customise shortcut settings, searched for dev, hovered over the shortcut, clicked the minus button, and I was able to disable it. Is that not available on your Mac version of Brave? (I use the Windows version).

Please send a screenshot of what you see when you go to the shortcut page.

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Exactly, nothing happens when I hover any of the default shortcuts. And there´s no hover event on that element when checking the CSS. If I add my own shortcut the hover event seems to work as intended.
This issue is marked as closed but probably shouldn’t be: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/39206

Two open issues regarding this problem:

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P5 is low priority actually.
There might be something to be done here but as per one of my comments in the second issue above and our engineers comments:

TL,DR; macOS handles keyboard shortcuts differently than Linux/Windows with respect to keyboard shortcuts hard-coded by the system.

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Sorry that I messed that up…

You’re right; P1 is high priority and P5 is low.

Have no idea how I mixed that up… but thanks for the clarification!