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How do I prevent pages I visit from overriding selected Firefox shortcut keys?

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Mar 15, 20268438 views
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In Firefox, how can I prevent pages from overriding Firefox built-in keyboard shortcuts through Javascript on a per-key basis? Preferably on a per-site basis, too? The most frustrating override is the forward slash ('/') that's linked to "Find in page". Sites like Google search results, Twitter timelines, some wikis, and other pages steal the slash key for their own search boxes, which is completely wrong. Since my rep lets me ask, edit, and answer questions, but not add comments, this is basically a duplicate of these other two questions that weren't properly answered: How do a stop a website for overriding my keyboard short cuts Firefox: don't allow websites to override the / (slash) key

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Fix for: How do I prevent pages I visit from overriding selected Firefox shortcut keys?

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Building on edymtt's answer, I've created a userscript which disables only specific keyboard shortcuts. You can add more shortcuts to disable by adding keycodes to the keycodes array, or restrict which sites to apply it to by replacing the tag with one or more patterns. Install using greasemonkey.

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