How to disable or edit Google Chrome Developer Tools shortcut?

There is a shortcut in the Google Chrome Developer Tools which happen to trigger every times I try to type the [ or ] character in the console. The shortcut in question probably is Alt+[, Alt+^ or [ and it moves the tabs (of the Chrome Developer Tools) to the last selected one. This shortcut is simply blocking me from typing the [ or ] in the console and I want to either disable it or edit it to something else. How can I edit or disable that shortcut ?

Note : I'm not really using the shortcut in the developers tools, so if it's only possible to disable all shortcut it would be a viable solution.

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HoLyVieR

Posted 2012-05-21T01:25:54.190

Reputation: 233

I have raised a new Chromium issue at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168164 . Personally, I do not expect keyboard shortcut customization to be available in Chrome, as the design direction is to keep things as simple as possible for end users.

– hanxue – 2013-01-03T15:35:38.817

Actually, I've just found out that the <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>[</kbd> shortcut is documented at https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/shortcuts

– hanxue – 2013-01-03T15:45:16.133

@hanxue The original problem with Alt + [ that was switching tabs instead of typing [ has been fixed since this question was posted. It was an issue with french keyboard layout and Chrome. Here's the bug report : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128878

– HoLyVieR – 2013-01-03T16:29:00.960

Answers

You have stumbled upon an undocumented shortcut in Google Chrome. The shortcut that you mention is actually Ctrl + [, which scrolls through each of the developer tabs in sequence from right to left.

A quick way around it is to use the Keyconfig extension to re-map Ctrl + [ to no action.

hanxue

Posted 2012-05-21T01:25:54.190

Reputation: 2 354

your link to the keyconfig extension is a 404 – Factor Mystic – 2018-03-08T16:50:41.147

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See this article. Just right click on chrome shortcut and select properties and then in target at the last add the -disable-dev-tool. Hope it will work for you.

avirk

Posted 2012-05-21T01:25:54.190

Reputation: 15 151

I don't want to disable developer tools, I'm using it. What I want to remove or disable is a shortcut of developer tools that makes developers tools console hard to use. – HoLyVieR – 2012-05-21T03:39:02.527

Seems much hard but I will try to find out the way for this. – avirk – 2012-05-24T15:56:23.457

I don't think that there is any way yet to do this. I think you can suggest this option to Google. :) – avirk – 2012-05-25T03:10:57.583