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I just don't get it why browsers allow websites to override their own hotkeys. I'm sure it even required extra code to be written to work correctly.

Linear hijacks Cmd+F for example, very helpfully providing some terrible thing instead of my browser's built-in search that works the same everywhere. (it's the same Linear that thinks you can't not want wysiwyg markdown editing)

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Well, for Ctrl+F there is sometimes a reason. Many websites uses technique called virtualization of lists. That boosts performance, but standard Ctrl+F doesn't works anymore properly

I know of 2 websites that do this. 1. Confluence It's super annoying and takes up a lot of screen space 2. Nexus It simply kills it. You can use ctrl-f but it simply will not find text right in front of you..

Really i see no valid case

github code editor is a big one

DOS emulator and Vim emulator, and that's almost all I can imagine. Maybe games that would use the control key as an additional input---but in the browser???

The good sites allow you to hit ctrl f twice to get browser's find feature.

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