Learn More
Resend Email
10
bahua
4y

I don't know about you, but a double-digit percentage of my swearing aloud while using a computer takes place when a site uses its javascript bullshit to grab my keypresses, so that when I hit the slash key to search the text of the page(something I do A LOT), it instead moves my focus to their own search field, where I will be halfway through typing before I see that the hijacking has taken place. Today I wondered if this was annoying to anyone else, and found that yes, yes it is. Maybe it annoys you too, so here.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/...

random

eat shit engagement

text search

js bullshit

firefox
Favorite
Ranter
Comments
  • 1
    4y
    Yeah, that shit makes me angry. I don't follow links to Twitter anymore because I can't even close the fucking tab with ctrl+w. Why do browsers allow overriding browser shortcuts in the first place? What the actual fuck.

    Thanks for the tip, I'm glad there's an addon for that. Is there also one for Chrome-based browsers?
  • 0
    4y
    @VaderNT

    I don't know, but I'm sure it'd be easy to find out with a search on the chrome store.
  • 1
    4y
    @theKarlisK that's a good list of add-ons. I'll have to install some of those later. Kind of wish there was a single add on that blocked all of that crap though.

    Browsers really shouldn't allow keyboard-jacking like that.
  • 1
    4y
    Slash? So ctrl/cmd f is no longer a thing?
  • 0
    4y
    @bahua unfortunately I didn't find such a Chrome extension. 😞 That's why I asked.

    What I did find after some more searching is a user script for Greasemonkey and similar extensions (e.g. I use Violentmonkey): https://gist.github.com/isaacl/...

    To allow ctrl+w I added 87 to the meta_keycodes set locally... no idea why that's not included in the gist. Who cares. Works for me in Vivaldi.
  • 0
    4y
    @hash-table That's weird, xorg triggers events on the ancestors of the current xwindow, propagating down the tree from the root window. Maybe a config issue? Printing the active xwindow could also help, Gnome might not update that properly.
Related Rants
devRant © 2021 Hexical Labs LLC
Privacy Policy  |  Terms of Service
Add Comment