I keep trying to switch to Firefox but I keep having to stop using it because of a very stupid problem that's more of a me issue than anything else - the keyboard shortcut for the URL bar on the Mac version.
For years I used web browsers on PC where the shortcut key was Alt+D and when I first started using a Mac it was Cmd+L. Annoying, and I could never get used to it, but MacOS has a nice feature where you can remap shortcuts for anything in the menu bars to a keyboard combo of your choice. This works perfectly for Safari, Edge and Chrome, where there is a menu bar entry for "Open Location" that I have successfully mapped to Cmd+D.
The problem is that Firefox, for whatever stupid reason, doesn't have an "Open Location" entry in the menu bar, so there is no way to remap it using the MacOS built-in keyboard options. It seems so ridiculous, but after 20+ years of Alt+D/Cmd+D I cannot get used to Cmd+L and I find it really annoying. I've tried to look up extensions that will let me remap it but I've not had any luck finding anything that actually works. There are MacOS applications which apparently can do it, but I've found them clunky and with their own issues, so I just gave up.
I've found several things online where people have requested that Mozilla add this but they just don't seem to be interested which is silly because it would be such a trivial change. So one last ditch attempt, has anyone got any suggestions that may help me overcome this silly issue?
TLDR - Default keyboard shortcut for URL bar on Mac Firefox is Cmd+L. I want to make it Cmd+D. Every other browser allows use of built in MacOS keyboard remap option but Firefox does not.
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