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Unsure about other browsers but Firefox lets you allow/block websites from overriding default keyboard shortcuts on a per-site basis as well as globally (defaults to global allow).

Individual site config is located here: application menu bar > "Tools" > "Page Info" > "Permissions" tab > "Override keyboard shortcuts"

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The extension StopTheMadness provides similar functionality for Safari, as well as prevention of other types of annoying behaviors (like nonstandard context menus).

Unfortunately this breaks some semantically-compatible extensions to standard shortcuts, like Ctrl-C in Google Docs, which is a perfectly reasonable, necessary, and helpful override, unlike many.

I have found allowing overrides is unfortunately the least annoying of two bad options. But I still get unreasonably annoyed when web apps steal Ctrl-K which I use constantly.

On the other hand Google Docs also steals Ctrl-H which I never want to not open the browser history browser. I really wish Firefox has much more customizable keyboard shortcuts. Being about to define arbitrary bindings and control which bindings can be overridden by which sites would be an incredible productivity feature.

GitHub (and GitLab, and Linear if I recall, and others) overriding Ctrl-F (or /, which Tridactyl needs) is a crime against humanity. I know GitHub claimed they'd stop, but I still was getting weird interactions not long ago (then again, the entire recent UI redesign of GitHub drives me absolutely insane to the point that I have zero positive things to say about it, so maybe I'm just no longer their target audience).

I haven't heard any discussion about it, and second your take on the redesign. I find it harder to use, prone to the sort of unfriendly-ness discussed in this thread, and more resource intensive and/or less responsive.

I feel you, I do. I am a simple GitHub user with simple needs, and GitHub's latest redesign is a giant leap toward unnecessary complexity. I don't need multiple panels and all the geegaws. My use of GH in terms of what I need to do for my employer has become much more difficult lately. And the whole search debacle is the worst. I absolutely depended on that feature, and they somehow managed to Nerf it!

The absolute worst thing is the basic code view. If I accidentally click inside it, a text cursor shows up. Ctrl+F is then hijacked to do... previously nothing! I need to find some piece of unclickable chrome to click on and remove the "focus" from the code view, then I can Ctrl+F to find what I'm looking for with the browser's page search.

This is absolutely infuriating, and the crux of it all is that I can't even edit the code that is taking focus and hijacking shortcuts! The goggles do nothing!

> I can't even edit the code that is taking focus and hijacking shortcuts!

You can remove the shortcuts pretty easily with a userscript, see lines ~410-440 here for inspiration: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/2eaba7e4ceec6de5...

bless you

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