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How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker

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Why This Matters

The article highlights the importance of user control over browser features, specifically addressing the conflict between Firefox's new emoji picker shortcut and existing software like 1Password. Disabling the emoji picker enhances user experience by preventing shortcut conflicts and maintaining productivity. This underscores the need for customizable browser settings to cater to diverse user workflows.

Key Takeaways

How to Disable Firefox's Emoji Picker

Annoyingly enough, Mozilla decided to add a emoji picker to Firefox 150, which fair enough, probably some people like, but they did it by using the shortcut of Ctrl + . (Control + Dot), which also happens to be the exact same shortcut 1Password uses by default, and has been using for as long as I can remember!

On GNOME we already have a global shortcut for some emoji picker, I think it's Super + , or something, and besides, I don't really write any emojis in anything I use a browser for anyways, so off we go to disable it so we can properly use 1Password again.

How to disable the shortcut

Easy peasy:

Open about:config in Firefox Search for widget.gtk.native-emoji-dialog Set it to false Restart Firefox if Ctrl + . does not immediately work

For me it worked without restarting, YMMV