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Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) by atesti on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:53AM (#15311690)
I wish I could remove "F1" from Chrome: I'm in the middle of a lot of tabs, reading them after each other and accidentially pressing F1 instead of ESC and a new useless help tab obens on the far right.

Luckily if I close it immediately without navigating, Chrome is clever enough to return me to the last tab

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Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) by blockoperation on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:57AM (#15313305)
If you're able to build Chromium yourself, here's a trivial patch which does just that (only tested on Linux):

https://gist.github.com/blockoperation/5ec91d666e670e39584d2...

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Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) by raldi on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:15AM (#15319585)
On what OS does Chrome do anything when you press F1 or Esc? On my Mac, neither seems to do anything.
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