KeySnail

For those who misses Emacs keys on Linux (both in Firefox and Chrome)

Good news! I started a new project xkeysnail, which provides you a key-configuration functionality on every application (including Firefox and Chrome) on Linux (it's like AutoHotKey on Windows). This frees you from limitations of web-browsers that prohibits you to override keys such as Ctrl+n and Ctrl+p.

In combination of Vim-oriented browsing-addons such as Surfingkeys (BTW, this add-on is a way better than old-style KeySnail I feel), xkeysnail provides you a better browsing experience as in KeySnail, I believe.

KeySnail doesn't support Firefox57+

Since Firefox 57 dropped several important features required by KeySnail (or Vimperator), there is no chance to migrate KeySnail to Firefox 57+ for now.

The most important feature, which has been unfortunately dropped in Firefox 57+, is API for overriding browser-level shortcut keys. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061 for details. Since current API only allows content-level shortcut keys, KeySnail doesn't work in most of the places including location bars, search field, and so forth.

If you want to keep using KeySnail, I recommend using Waterfox https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ instead of Firefox. Several KeySnail users have already reported that they are enjoying Waterfox.

Another option is to switch to other add-ons that still work in Firefox 57+. I tried several add-ons and personally recommend Surfingkeys, which is highly extensible and has sophisticated APIs.

Thanks for using KeySnail! Without your encouraging reactions, I couldn't enjoy such a long-time lasting development.

mooz

About

KeySnail is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox that aims to be a competitor and lightweight alternative to Vimperator. Unlike Vimperator, KeySnail provides comfortable browsing experience for Emacs users, but its target users are not limited to.

See https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki for details.

How to release

1. Update the package version by ./set_version_info.rb X.Y.Z
2. Rebuild the package by ./createpackage.sh
3. Sign keysnail.xpi file in addons.mozilla.org
4. Replace keysnail.xpi with signed one, and update hash information in update.rdf by ./updatehash.sh
5. Update signature information in update.rdf for auto-updating by mccoy
6. Push changes to GitHub