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>Stop hijacking my typical browser shortcuts for use in your own app I've seen this happen with ctrl + f for opening a custom in-app search bar. I don't want that. It doesn't always search the page as usual.

You can bypass this by selecting the url bar before using ctrl-f.

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Ctrl-f is often overriden for a reason, though. On modern shitty React sites content outside the viewport may not be loaded into the DOM, so the browser find won't even work. It is quite frustrating the scroll past some text, ctrl-f for it and get "no results".

Correct. The most common perpetrator of "stealing" ctrl-f I use is the Google drive suite (Sheets, Docs, &c) and it's basically necessary. That operation is executed server-side. The client doesn't have the data to do the search.

But that should be an exception, not the rule.

Google at least gets it right, I almost never used a generic site's search function cause they never help me find what I want

That's just a broken site. Breaking it in a different way doesn't fix it.

Such "broken" sites happen to include some of the most popular sites on the internet, so I don't think anyone cares.

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