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Why doesn't FireFox honor my Mac's TEXT REPLACEMENT shortcuts, but garbage browsers like Chrome do?

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albertmonaco
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I use thousands of text replacement shortcuts on my Mac, which are all honored by Safari, Chrome and virtually every other browser, but not FireFox. What's up with that?

I use ''thousands'' of''' text replacement shortcuts '''on my Mac, which are all honored by Safari, Chrome and virtually every other browser, but not FireFox. What's up with that?
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TyDraniu
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albertmonaco said
Why doesn't FireFox honor my Mac's TEXT REPLACEMENT

Devs are working on it under bug 1149826.

cor-el
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Please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

You can look on the Add-ons website for a suitable extension.

Modified by cor-el