keyboard-shortcut-api

Still no API for WebExtensions with Vimperator-like or Pentadactyl-like functionality. [0][1] For those interested, the whole discussion about adding it is here [2]. [0] https://github.com/cmcaine/keyboard-api [1] https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061

There are various proposals for keyboard shortcut APIs to support extensions like Vimperator. Here's one: https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api It's too late for it (or something like it) to be in Firefox 57, but it seems likely a future Firefox will have this capability.

Good news! It won't (Ok that part sucks). Good news it looks like the Keyboard API has approved. https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api This is one of the last requirements for having a viable product. cmcaine's working on replacement successor: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl It still a long ways off, but its possible.

I'm not sure they will. Vimperator etc. has a lot of dependencies some of which will never come to be. But the parts that could, like a proper keyboard api hasn't even been reviewed for months. The community complained about the lack of apis, they made a webextension experiment, which is apparently the way you ask for api extensions and it's pretty much just being ignored(the thread is 2 years old [1][2]). The customization thing mentioned also applies since the plugin creates a custom status bar and hides all sorts of other stuff. I'm not sure what browser I'm going to use to be honest. All the hotkey browsers are buggy as hell since they use qtwebkit, webkitgtk, qt-webengine and whatnot. Chrome has extensions like cvim which sort of work, but they suffer from issues like not being able to properly hook keys and properly notify the user