Menu shortcuts in Thunderbird
I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for email a while back. I've had some problems with it, and I'm extremely disappointed with its junk mail filter's performance.
But an incredible annoyance has been the menu shortcuts. To create a new message, you press ⇧⌘M. Command-shift-M! Every email program I know uses ⌘N. But not Thunderbird.
I know about changing shortcuts in the Keyboard System Preferences panel. But that simply doesn't work for Mozilla apps. NSUserKeyEquivalents, nope.
So I lived with it. Until I saw a hint on Mac OS X Hints about customizing FireFox's key shortcuts. It points to an extension: keyconfig.
Not only can you switch keyboard shortcuts, but you can see some that aren't in the menus. Did you know that ⌘-Return sends an email you're editing?