Keyboard Shortcut to Pin or UnPin Tab in Firefox

With Pinned Tabs or App tabs, Firefox allows users to pin their favorite websites like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter etc. You can keep these tabs open and work on other tabs, these tabs doesn’t occupy space on tab bar and will open automatically when you launch Firefox browser. Till now to pin or unpin a tab, you need to right click on specific tab and choose that option. A keyboard shortcut serving this should be much better, if you want that Pin UnPin add-on adds that to Firefox.

Download and install this restart less add-on. After its install, you can use Alt+P shortcut to pin or unpin the current tab. Advanced users able to pin or unpin current tab from Firefox’s developer command line tool by using “pintab” and “unpintab” commands. You need to install this extension for these commands to work.

Firefox Pinned tabs thumb Keyboard Shortcut to Pin or UnPin Tab in Firefox

If you’re already using Tab Mix Plus add-on, you don’t need to install this add-on. You can assign a shortcut to Pin Tab/Unpin Tab by visiting TMP options>Menu>shortcuts.

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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