alt Hacker NewsGreat. 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
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CTRL+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.
Don't get me started on scroll hijacking.
Github hijacks '/' and it's really annoying, it gets me all the time.
Some also hijack the shortcuts to open devtools (like F12), so you have to find the option in the browser menu itself
This 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.
Firefox allows you to bypass right click hijacking by holding shift before pressing right click.