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zghadyali
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Jan 05, 2021

Turn off F12 opening DevTools with new Edge setting

  Hello Insiders! We've heard a lot of feedback in the Microsoft Edge DevTools from customers who accidentally press F12  and didn't intend to launch or use the DevTools. To help solve this proble...
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peter_giles
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Sep 16, 2021
This would have to be about the dumbest thing I've seen Microsoft do in a long time.

First up, it forgets my choice every time Edge updates.

Secondly, are you going to ask if you wanted to press every individual key press just because some users are fat-fingered and can't cope with fixing their own mistakes by pressing F12 a second time?

The stupidity of this is staggering.
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GeoffreyGOG
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Jan 11, 2023

peter_giles 

 

I was surprised that all of a sudden pressing the F12 key did nothing. Checking the short cut revealed I'd have to press Ctrl + Shift + I, and I just asked myself, Why? How long has F12 for development tools been a thing? F1 has a long time been associated with Help for any program, if I press F1 by mistake for any other reason, should Microsoft change it? The F12 key was there and anyone who used development tools would know what it was for. And if you pressed it by mistake for something else you would see that it's not the key to press for what you intended. Press the right key. I have pressed F11 by mistake and surprised that development tools did not come up. It didn't puzzle me because when I pressed F12 development tool came up and I realized I had accidentally press F11. SO, what happens if someone presses Ctrl + Shift + O by mistake?

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