How do you disable keyboard shortcuts to Safari bookmarks bar? I use browser - based software and keep accidentally pressing cmd-1, cmd-2 etc., which happen to be the keybaord shortcuts for the bookmarks bar. Pressing those keys takes me away from the page where I am entering data. I then lose my keyboard input and have to start again. I never intentionally use those keyboard shortcuts. How do you disable them?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Try System Preferences / Keyboard - Keyboard Shortcuts
Where in System Preferences / Keyboard - Keyboard Shortcuts ?
I had looked there before but could not see any Safari keyboard shortcuts.
The System Preferences approach probably doesn't work. It would allow one to reassign any normal menu shortcut to some other keys, but these bookmark entries (cmd-1,2,3..) don't have "menu title" in the way the normal menus have.
AskDifferent seems to have some advice on this (changing cmd-1,2,3.. to switch between tabs sounds like a no-brainer for Apple Safari GUI folks?). http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1621/how-can-i-make-safari-cmdnumber-sh ortcut-switch-tabs-instead-of-opening-the-boo
Apple, please consider changing the default mapping. Thanks!
As an added detail, which I failed to mention originally:
The "@" character is mapped in the European (at least Finnish/Swedish) keyboard layout as Alt-2. Meaning if one mispresses Cmd instead of Alt, BOOOOM one loses the open tab, gets a shortcut instead.
All my friends using Macs have faced this. And their friends using their macs face it as well - where did my tab go?
Compared to this annoyance and what-the-****-just-happened experience the benefits of being able to move to bookmarks 1..9 without touching the mouse are ... neglible.
At the least, give us a Safari Preference to turn this keyboard shortcutting off.
Quite frustrating to have the current page "overwritten" by a page from favorites, often losing a session or written form input. I ended up fixing this by emptying my favorites bar all together to another folder. I didn't use favorites anyways. From Safari Bookmarks -> Edit bookmarks, create a new folder, expand favorites, select all the favorites and cut+paste them into the new folder. No more annoying page switches..
Disable keyboard shortcuts to Safari bookmarks bar
