Comments on: Firefox: creating a shortcut to ScrapBook highlight operations with the Keyconfig extension

By: Francois

Francois — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:41:19 +0000

Thank you Stas for the additional tips. (I’ve added the clarification for key assignment in the text).

By: Stas

Stas — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:36:52 +0000

awesome tips,François – you saved my wrist!

use sbPageEditor.saveOrCapture(1) if you don’t want the pop up. (it’ll just save it into the default location with default settings). (at least it works with scrapbookplus). I used Alt-X since then I don’t need to take my hand off mouse.

it wasn’t obvious how to assign the key (needed to select the entry and then click on the entry at the bottom of the keyconfig screen little textbox)

By: Francois

Francois — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:21:08 +0000

Thanks Andres for the tip! (I like Firefox for that: you can tweak the innards of the software when you want things just right.)

(I’m having a problem though, and it won’t save. Maybe it has to do with the event.originalTarget.id being xxx_key1_Scrapbook_save and not the original menu item?)

By: Andres

Andres — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:43:53 +0000

Here is the code for a shortcut key for capturing a selection as…

On KEYCONFIG make a new key. On the /*CODE*/ put this
sbBrowserOverlay.execCapture(1, true , true , event.originalTarget.id)

On a single line.
Put a name you’ll remembre “Save Selection Scrapbook” or whatever come in handy for you.

Assign a shortcut key (mine was “SHIFT” + “>”, cause they where close to the space bar)

Now I don’t have to navigate the context menu!!!

By: francois

francois — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:04:04 +0000

Scrapbook is really useful, good thing to try for sure And you don’t have to read the second part about the “Underlying explanations” to get the shortcuts to work. (By the way I now use those shortcuts all the time when reading long articles).

By: Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:12:58 +0000

Wow, I didn’t even know that you could change those kinds of things… it kind of seems a bit too technical for me. But i’m definitely going to download the Firefox ScrapBook application.

thanks!
-Charlene