Hotkeys don't work when resistFingerprinting is set to true in about:config in Firefox

[Nogooduser]

I'm not sure if I should file this as a bug or not, probably not as I'm assuming it's a browser limitation, but it was bothering me the whole day that I kept using my hotkeys and nothing would happen. I re-installed the extension and even tried changing the combinations to all sorts of settings and nothing.

I was about to file an issue here about this when it suddenly hit me that I had switched the privacy.resistFingerprinting setting in about:config the other day and that could be the reason. Turns out that intuition was right. If you have this option on, the hotkeys will simply not work, though redirection still works normally as long as you directly open the image.

Hopefully this can serve other people having a similar issue in the future. And if the dev wasn't aware maybe they can create a workaround (unless it's actually impossible, in which case I hope this serves as a troubleshoot for others)

[qsniyg]

Alright, after looking more into the issue, it looks like as if individual modifiers (Ctrl, Alt, Shift) are not registered, unless another non-modifier key is pressed, such as Ctrl+Shift+N. However, due to the way the script works, this still won't result in the popup being opened.

I'm not sure if this can be fixed, however once #30 is implemented, it should provide an alternative that will work (being able to set a custom key chord).

[qsniyg]

Now that #30 is implemented, it kind of works, but you need to choose a key combination that works with it, which is a little hard to predict. Ctrl+Shift+/ or Ctrl+` works for me.

[qsniyg]

I've labelled this as unlikely to fix as I don't believe there's any way of going around Firefox's restrictions in this case. I'll keep this open however, in case Firefox exposes some kind of extension API that lets us do this (although I'm quite doubtful that will happen).