Key to Click Firefox Addon (and Chrome Extension)

Example config for https://apod.nasa.gov:

{
  "ArrowLeft": "hr + a",
  "ArrowRight": "center a[href^=\"ap\"]:last-of-type"
}

Find event.key values here: https://keycode.info/

Developing

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/debugging/#debugging_popups

web-ext run --firefox=/Applications/Firefox\ Developer\ Edition.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --firefox-profile=Dev

Outdated but slightly useful: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Firefox_workflow_overview

Build

Create a zip file with the correct manifest.json:

Firefox: npm run build:v2
Chrome: npm run build:v3

Check the contents of the zip with: unzip -l key-to-click.zip

Icons

convert ./icons/icon-fullsize.png -resize 48x48^ -background none -gravity center -extent 48x48 icons/icon.png
convert ./icons/icon-fullsize.png -resize 96x96^ -background none -gravity center -extent 96x96 icons/[email protected]

TODO

• Advanced config - ability to not ignore certain keys while in input/textarea/select

Sources

Icon from https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F5B1/