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Firefox's Quick Find, activated with ‘/’, is a feature that I really don't use and the key conflicts with access keys in certain web sites (namely Pinboard and ScalaDoc). How can I disable this feature or at least its access key?

I have tried Customizable Shortcuts, but it does not seem to let me change this shortcut.

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  • It's unfortunate that Firefox's plugin architecture doesn't allow sufficient access to create any kind of hotkey rebinding extension. I fought with this issue a great deal and eventually switched to a different browser because of it.
    – Fopedush
    May 16, 2012 at 16:00
  • Which version of Firefox?
    – iglvzx
    May 16, 2012 at 21:25
  • @iglvzx FF 12.0
    – Michael Ekstrand
    May 19, 2012 at 20:53

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Try setting searchkeys.disable.all in about:config as true.

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  • No dice - set the setting, restarted Firefox, and the search keys are still present & working :(
    – Michael Ekstrand
    May 16, 2012 at 16:16
  • Cheers worked for me!
    – David K
    Mar 14, 2013 at 21:09
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    There is no such property in FF v60
    – aLx13
    Apr 26, 2018 at 9:29
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There is an "unofficial" plugin called SearchHotKeys available here: http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/index-en.html (it's about 3/4 down the rather large page). It seems to do the trick (I have FF 12.0 and it worked for me).

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