What isn't clear, but seems implied, is that Chrome developers have reserved these shortcuts for use with Chrome itself. Google seems to place a high importanc

What isn't clear, but seems implied, is that Chrome developers have reserved these shortcuts for use with Chrome itself. Google seems to place a high importance on keyboard shortcuts for their applications. The list of shrotcuts for GMail, for instance, is impressive. It would seem though that most of the developers complaining on that bug report are using control+[key] to demarc the border between editing and issuing commands. Google seems to make heavy use of cursor focus to allow compound commands (press this key, then another key) to demarc that same boundary. I'm not sure who is right or wrong, but I can't blame Google for directing development along these lines to suit their own purposes.