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I wish I could be as excited as everyone else re: the new Firefox. I've never switched to Chrome, and dealt with some of the previous performance issues. I dealt with these issues because of Vimperator, which as far as I know, won't work with the new version of Firefox. A real bummer.

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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.

It's not as sophisticated but I've found Saka Keys to be a suitable replacement:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saka-key/

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