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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.

MoonSire
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HoLyVieR
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  • 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 Jan 03 '13 at 15:35
  • Actually, I've just found out that the Ctrl + [ shortcut is documented at https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/shortcuts – hanxue Jan 03 '13 at 15:45
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    @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 Jan 03 '13 at 16:29

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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.

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