trickeries! » annoying http://trickeries.com it's tricky to rock a style thats liked online Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:01:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Disabling Firefox keyboard shortcuts with JavaScript http://trickeries.com/238/disabling-firefox-keyboard-shortcuts-with-javascript/ http://trickeries.com/238/disabling-firefox-keyboard-shortcuts-with-javascript/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:15:42 +0000 atom http://trickeries.com/?p=238 First off, let me just say I feel really stupid for posting this. It seems like I stumbled onto something for the first time that should be common knowledge for a JavaScript developer.  However, I am still making the post because I find this to be rather strange.  Using the event ‘preventDefault’ method, you can completely disable Firefox’s built in keyboard shortcuts.  If you click on the following js bookmarklet:

ruin my browser!

You won’t be able to pop firebug up with f12, ctrl+t yourself a new tab, get yourself a fresh version of the page with f5, and you won’t even be able to view the source. When I ran into this for the first time, I thought my computer was fucked up.

Apparently, this is also just Firefox. I just tested it in IE and Chrome, and it appears to do nothing. Is this a XUL thing?

Does anyone else find this to be strange or annoying? Is this surprising or am I stupid? It just seems like this shouldn’t happen.

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