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I really love the option of ⌃⌘Space to bring up Emoji & Symbols in macOS. Unfortunately this does not work in Firefox.

How can I get this to work?

I am on macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, and Firefox is the latest version.

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  • Have you made sure Firefox is up to date? That shortcut works in Safari and in Firefox bringing up the same dialogue box for special characters. And I'm using Big Sur 11.5.1
    – Solar Mike
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 9:27
  • yes, just updated it before posting the question
    – burgemeester
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 9:45
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    Given the downvoters, who as usual fail to help, I won't come back on this.
    – Solar Mike
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 10:01

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It is a known issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563862

However the issue is closed, and based on the comments it looks like it is related to the language of the browser.

As far as I can see the Firefox can be downloaded in different languages, but also language of the UI can be changed after. Also, it looks like if you are changing the language compared to the default the Emoji shortcut stops working.

So your best bet is to download Firefox in the language you are using it, instead of changing the language afterwards. Or you can always try to go to Preferences and change the language to the one Firefox was downloaded in originally. It may also matter to have the language of the System and Firefox set to the same.

In my case if I set Firefox to Italian the shortcut stops working, but if I set it to UK English, it starts to work (after restart). I assume it is because I've originally downloaded Firefox in English.

If you don't want to do that another workaround I've found is to go to System Preferences… > Keyboard and on the Keyboard tab turn on the "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar". With this there will be a flag icon in the upper right of the screen, where the Emoji viewer can be opened, just like as if it were opened using the ⌃+⌘+space shortcut. Bit more cumbersome...

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  • But that is a dup of bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563295 which says it has been fixed
    – mmmmmm
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 12:43
  • Sorry, edited my answer above with more relevant information. After all it all comes down to the language of the Firefox UI.
    – Bence Szalai
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 13:01
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    I tested it on my version and it looks simply to depend on the chosen language in the Firefox preferences. If ( Firefox language == MacOS language ) then { shortcuts OK }.
    – athena
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 16:59
  • Had the same problem (in 2022). I uninstalled it and reinstalled Firefox with brew cask and it worked.
    – hardfork
    Commented Feb 27, 2022 at 7:51
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    The bug is back under Sonoma as bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855346 — both ⌘+⌃+space and Fn+e seem to have quirks.
    – rcoup
    Commented Mar 6 at 11:35

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