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Want to change or disable developer tool shortcut | Firefox Support
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Press F12 to open Firefox developer, then press F1 to open settings.

Scroll down (on the right edge) to uncheck "Use the F12 key to
open/close DevTools"! Now you use shitf+F12 to access Dev Tools. F12 key
is released for other purposes.

If you have no intention for using the developer tools then you can set
this pref to true in about:config

about:config => devtools.policy.disabled => true
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:43:56 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Press F12 to open Firefox developer ...

I normally use CTRL-SHIFT-I.
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On 3/11/2026 8:34 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:43:56 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Press F12 to open Firefox developer ...

I normally use CTRL-SHIFT-I.

I think F12 for DevTools was not a good defauilt. It's convinient for
web programmers, but most users don't use usually use it.
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:58:57 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 3/11/2026 8:34 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:43:56 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Press F12 to open Firefox developer ...

I normally use CTRL-SHIFT-I.

I think F12 for DevTools was not a good defauilt. It's convinient
for web programmers, but most users don't use usually use it.

Does it conflict with some other common use? If not, whatrCOs the
problem?
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Lawrence,

Press F12 to open Firefox developer ...

I normally use CTRL-SHIFT-I.

As I can reach the same thru the context menu -> "inspect element" I forgot the keyboard shortcut combinations altogether..

Added pre: if a bit lucky the clicked-on element will be hilited in the inspection window.

... I would not have minded to have a context-menu entry for the "browser console" (ctrl-shift-J) (debugging GreaseMonkey scripts).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 3/11/2026 2:18 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:58:57 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

I think F12 for DevTools was not a good defauilt. It's convinient
for web programmers, but most users don't use usually use it.

Does it conflict with some other common use? If not, whatrCOs the
problem?

Do you use Micro$oft Office? Check out how it uses F12.... might confuse
some users when using Firefox.
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:50:58 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 3/11/2026 2:18 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:58:57 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

I think F12 for DevTools was not a good defauilt. It's convinient
for web programmers, but most users don't use usually use it.

Does it conflict with some other common use? If not, whatrCOs the
problem?

Do you use Micro$oft Office?

No.

Check out how it uses F12.... might confuse some users when using
Firefox.

Do Microsoft Office users tend to be easily confused about the way
keys are used in apps that are not Microsoft Office?
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:31:28 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D-|Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:50:58 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 3/11/2026 2:18 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:58:57 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

I think F12 for DevTools was not a good defauilt. It's convinient
for web programmers, but most users don't use usually use it.

Does it conflict with some other common use? If not, whatrCOs the
problem?

Do you use Micro$oft Office?

No.

Check out how it uses F12.... might confuse some users when using
Firefox.

Do Microsoft Office users tend to be easily confused about the way
keys are used in apps that are not Microsoft Office?

I'd be surprised if the majority of M$ Office users even know about
function keys in the first place.
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