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How to change or disable default keyboard shortcuts

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I want to disable the F12 shortcuts that open the developer tools, because I use this shortcuts to open a different application (yakuake)

How do we change the default key bindings?

I want to disable the F12 shortcuts that open the developer tools, because I use this shortcuts to open a different application (yakuake) How do we change the default key bindings?

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You can't change that F12 key binding. You would have to disable the developer tools via the about:config page to achieve this.

  • about:config => devtools.policy.disabled = true

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can click the button to "Accept the Risk and Continue".

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But that would disable the developer tools right? And I want to have access to the developer tools (I am actually a developer).

I don't want to disable the developer tool functionality. Only the F12 shortcut (or bind it to something different)

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I don't know of another way to do this apart from disabling the devtools. I think the devtools are loaded lazily at a later time and thus extensions might not be able to disable or block F12. The source code shows a reference to devtools.experiment.f12.shortcut_disabled, but this still displays a dialog to explain the purpose of F12.

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That's a shame. Were can we request the feature of being able to change shortcuts?