Question

Winamp has a neat feature. Global keys. That way I can change the playing song even if Winamp GUI doesn’t have focus.

I am looking for a similar solution to Firefox or Chrome.

I use Eclipse to code PHP.
It auto SSH’s and saves to another machine (testing)
I could use something like XRefresh with a mapped virtual drive but I cant install Samba on the testing machine.

Right now I have to:

CTRL+S (save and auto-update)
ALT+TAB (switch to Firefox GUI)
F5 (refresh current Firefox page)
ALT+TAB (back to Eclipse)

I am looking for something like:

CTRL+S (save and auto-update)
CTRL+X (refresh Firefox – while keeping focus on Eclipse)

I’ve looked over Firefox Plug-ins but found nothing to my needs. Chrome neither. XRefresh would be a perfect solution but, as said, cant SSH/Samba into the testing machine.

Answer 1

Autohotkey

Let me add my result for the awesome.ahc file:

^s::
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
IfWinExist, Mozilla Firefox
{
   WinActivate, Mozilla Firefox
   ControlSend, ahk_parent, {F5}, Mozilla Firefox
}
Return

This will switch to firefox and refresh the currently active tab.