[mschuetz]

> Perhaps intercepting Ctrl+F

Please don't ever do that. I know one site that does this and I hate it.

[ultrarunner]

Google Docs does this, e.g. in a spreadsheet. I think it's reasonable in that context.

For what it's worth, if you really need to search e.g. "View" to figure out where the View menu is, the OS-native menu option still works.

[mschuetz]

For applications that's fine. I'm mostly refering to traditional websites/forums that should never do this.

[Fnoord]

Discourse [1], popular forum software, does this as well.

[1] https://www.discourse.org/

[mercer]

Not a fan either, but at least it allows you to repeat the keystroke to do a native page search.

[Kaze404]

This is infuriating. Every time I CTRL+F on Discourse I get upset.

[efreak]

At one point I had a user script that prevented certain key combinations from being intercepted. Worse than discourse is a hosting platform I was encountering frequently for a while, where pressing esc to stop the page from loading instead caused the website to switch pages to a login prompt for the site owner. Other offenders that annoy me include intercepting alt+d (focus address bar), Ctrl+n (new window, outlook captures this), Ctrl+t (new tab), Ctrl+a (select all), and other common keyboard functions.

Fix: Just add a dummy onkeyup function to the document root and body elements, and set @match rules for whatever sites annoy you. Occasionally you'll also need the more generic event handler function as well.

[jakeogh]

It shouldn't be possible. That the browsers allow it is the real problem. Same with forced unmounting of resources from the DOM.