How to disable Firefox's new emoji picker

Wowfunhappy

An Emoji picker should be an OS-level feature. If the OS doesn’t provide the feature, then that is the OS’s decision to make, and the browser should respect it. Why would I want text input in one app to have a feature that text input in other apps lacks?

krige

Odd, I am on firefox 150, and Ctrl + . doesn't seem to do anything.

shevy-java

> Annoyingly enough, Mozilla decided to add a emoji picker to Firefox 150, which fair enough, probably some people like Mozilla is really focusing on how to break the Google monopoly. With the POWER of the Emoji, Mozilla will succeed here. I ... suppose?

Flimm

> On GNOME we already have a global shortcut for some emoji picker, I think it's Super + , or something Actually, on most distros, the default keyboard shortcut for the emoji picker on GNOME/GTK is ctrl-. (same as the Firefox shortcut). This only works on apps that support it. Older Firefox versions did not support GNOME's emoji picker at all, but Firefox 150 supports GNOME's emoji picker using the expected keyboard shortcut.

j1elo

I'm on Firefox 150.0.1 on Windows, and Ctrl+. consistently opens up the Firefox Multi-Account Containers panel, regardless of hitting that shortcut while focusing this same text box I'm writing on right now, or not. So this sounds like not working as expected I guess.

gib444

Is Firefox turning into Edge? The list of things I don't want in a browser is growing. Perhaps they need to consider a "basic" version

this_user

The Firefox UI is getting worse and worse with every version, because they are constantly adding more useless features. Any time you accidentally hit the wrong button, it launches something, because everything is a shortcut now. The latest being their split tabs, which I also had to disable. Maybe they should stop trying to turn their browser into an OS.

ralgozino

> I don't really write any emojis in anything I use a browser for anyways Proceeds to use an emoji as favicon :D

AdmiralAsshat

Strange...clicking Ctrl+. in my Firefox (which I just updated to 150.0.1) did not bring up the Emoji Picker, but instead brought up Firefox Multi-Account Containers.

pwdisswordfishq

My input method's emoji picker is bound to Super+. and works fine in Firefox... ESR 140.10. WTF did they even need to change?

edent

I despair at some of the comments on posts like this. "Mozilla needs to attract new users!!" Mozilla proceeds to add new features which new users might like "No! Not like that" Like, what do you actually want? A browser with a UI that hasn't changed since Stallman was in nappies? Things have to change in order to grow. Not everything is going to be right for you and that's OK.

wodenokoto

While there might be a use case for emoji picker in the browser, I don’t see how hiding one behind such an obscure shortcut brings an emoji picker to anyone who doesn’t already know how to use the one built in to their os.

hales

What I really want is an emoji explainer feature to help me read other people's emoji. I currently copy+paste a lot of them into a search engine to find out what they're supposed to be.

oneeyedpigeon

Does any OS get keyboard shortcuts even slightly right? I only really have experience with macOS right now, but it's terrible—just trying to find out which shortcuts are in use is non-trivial. Is there some kind of Linux standard for this? Something that stores shortcuts in a single plain text file, so they're all visible and easily manageable?

amanzi

Sounds like the real problem was that 1Password had hijacked the same keyboard shortcut that other Gnome apps use for the Emoji picker. For me, "Ctrl + ." was being used by two different extensions: Raindrop and Multi-account containers. I deleted these shortcuts since I would *rather* have the Firefox emoji picker. :-)