New feature: Allow users to change keyboard shortcuts to whatever key/key combinations suit them.
Many browsers do not natively support this, such as Google Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Addons exist for both chromium and Firefox that provide this functionality, but the problem is this does not always work as well as the native implementation would work, such as when the extension malfunctions, does not load quickly enough etc.
The ideal implementation can be found in the Vivaldi web browser at the following location:
vivaldi://settings/keyboard/
This screen allows the user to see all the keyboard shortcuts available to the user and allows them to set them or unset them, giving a great amount of control over the browser via a native and safe method.
Speaking personally, some shortcuts are very difficult/awkward to press because of the distance/position of some keys on the keyboard, so being able to change the shortcut to something easier, especially changing a two+ key shortcut to a one key shortcut, is a game changer.
ever stop to think of not behaving like an asshole towards other human beings?
Obviously I did look, but I didn’t find it.
Genuinely don’t understand why you’re acting like I attacked someone, but fyi, normal people usually just say “Actually, it does exist. It’s here…” but at least you ended up helping regardless.
I’m not. If I was an asshole I would have been a lot meaner and rambled about how lazy you were and all. Instead I answered your question and emphasized the important of trying to look for things yourself.
I’m still going to be nice, but I’m going to be very blunt with you on the rest of this…
Truthfully, you didn’t look. You might say you opened settings and did a quick glimpse, but you put no effort into it. I mean, when you open settings, there’s a search glass.
See how it showed the options and even highlighted? It would show you any and all options in settings for shortcuts, which included what to do. So it literally would have been resolved very quickly by doing a literal search and then seeing what came up.
Not responding like that at all. If I thought that, I’d have just flagged the comment or called you out on it. What I am calling you out on is being like so many people who come to complain but don’t take the time to look at things or even search for other topics.
There are pinned FAQ articles with answers on some things, there are official help articles in the Help Center, etc.
To give more examples of why I say you didn’t search:
Or you could have searched through topics here on Brave Community, where perhaps a person could try to Search Before Posting and they would have seen topics or responses like:
or
Amazing how many ways you could find the answer just by trying to search, isn’t it? Whether it be directly in your browser’s settings, Help Center, Brave Community, or even just by using search engines…all of which can lead to answers. Sure, it might take a few minutes, but it’s there. People just get too lazy and they’ll rush to create topics because it’s easier.
People are learning that if they just post somewhere, there’s a high likelihood someone will answer. In turn, they get lazy as hell and don’t want to spend 1-5 minutes or more searching for an answer. It’s just better to spend 5 seconds to write a question and go about their business. Then it floods out posts/topics of people with actual issues and makes it harder for them to get assistance.
This was being looked into by @Mattches as various people are having issues. But I guess as of this moment, Mac can’t remove shortcuts for some reason. Not 100% if it’s like that for all or just some. I’m Windows only so can’t test myself.
I’m on MacOS trying to disable a specific keyboard shortcut in Brave (CMD + Shift + D to bookmark all tabs); I have a systemwide automator shortcut with the same keystrokes I want to use instead.
It looks like Brave on MacOS currently doesn’t allow me to disable/remove a default keyboard shortcut - any idea if that is definitely the case, or if there is a way I can disable this shortcut in Brave so my systemwide keyboard shortcut will work?
@revstone rather than typing it all out, I did a short video. Can you confirm whether your situation does or doesn’t work the same way? I know before some on Mac said they hadn’t. If you’re reporting Mac definitely is different, I’ll try to loop in some from Brave again and check to make sure if any Github is open. If no Github, I’ll make one.
Thank you for the lightning quick response. On MacOS 14 Sonoma I don’t have any mouseover modals or options for the default shortcuts, but a “remove” icon shows up on keyboard shortcuts that are added in addition to the defaults. Screen recording here:
@Mattches@steeven
I found that there are at least two Github, with one being closed as if it had been resolved. Hoping y’all can get perhaps update a bit on this.
I have never owned or used a Mac in my life, so not too familiar with things. But could it be that those shortcuts that you can’t remove can be found in the OS Settings? If so, this might be what they are saying needs to be done. Though if so I’d hope we can get them to provide some sort of notice within the Shortcuts menu so people know to look to OS settings instead.
Guess just trying to do another quick follow-up here to know for sure. In the meanwhile, will just have to wait for support and/or devs to respond and see what can be done.
Interesting… I have set a systemwide keyboard shortcut in MacOS for SHIFT + CMD + D to run a little AppleScript in Automator, which allows me to insert the current date/time via that shortcut in various applications like TextEdit, Notes, etc.
Works a charm in other applications, but then in Brave it falls over – Brave supersedes the MacOS shortcut and applies its own default behavior for that same key combination, bookmarking all current tabs rather than writing out the current date/time.
That I can see, there isn’t a listing for this keyboard shortcut in MacOS itself registered by Brave, but I’ll look around again to see if it’s crept in there somehow.
That there isn’t a little “delete” modal appearing over the default keyboard shortcut in Brave on MacOS when there is in Windows makes me think there is something going awry in the MacOS build.
I just changed my shortcut to SHIFT + OPTION + COMMAND + D, which doesn’t appear captured by Brave, and that does work – current date/time now prints into the active text box in Brave, same as other apps.
Would still love to find a way to fully customize the shortcuts and get back to a 3-key instead of 4-key shortcut, but for now this workaround may do the trick
