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Great. Can we do ctrl-f search hijacking next. So jarring when websites replace core functionality with their own broken crap because they think they’re specia
by Havoc 7mo ago
Great. Can we do ctrl-f search hijacking next.
So jarring when websites replace core functionality with their own broken crap because they think they’re special.
Some also seem to hijack right click menu now
- Mate4 7mo agoFirefox allows you to bypass right click hijacking by holding shift before pressing right click.
- gonzalohm 7mo agoThere is also an option in about:config: "dom.event.contextmenu.enabled" set it to false
- arielcostas 7mo agoSome also hijack the shortcuts to open devtools (like F12), so you have to find the option in the browser menu itself
- lebuin 7mo agoYou can also click the address bar and then press you shortcut. Should be faster and works for all shortcuts AFAIK.
- david_allison 7mo agoThank you!
- ivanjermakov 7mo agoDon't get me started on scroll hijacking.
- amadeuspagel 7mo agoThis misses the point. Websites are allowed to replace default keyboard shortcuts for a reason. There are only a few exceptions to this, like Ctrl+W. In other words, you can design your website however you want, except to make it more difficult to leave. This is an implementation of the same philosophy.
- Havoc 7mo ago> you can design your website however you want, except to make it more difficult to leave. Who decreed that page navigation is in scope and search navigation is outside?
- taco_emoji 7mo agoCTRL+F hijacking is necessary in some cases when apps are not displaying the full text that the user would expect to search. E.g. when there's a 10K-line code file and the UI is not loading the whole thing into DOM, but the user would expect a "find" to search that whole code file.
- pornel 7mo agoBrowsers can deal with very long documents. Ctrl+F works like a breeze on HTML that's 100K lines long. Browsers only struggle to run heavy JS frameworks that wrap every line in a dozens of spans with dozens of handlers and mutate it all on every line scrolled.
- rat_on_the_run 7mo agoThey can have a search button for that, not hijacking default browser functions. Often I want both kinds of search.
- MrMember 7mo agoGithub hijacks '/' and it's really annoying, it gets me all the time.