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Disable arbitrary keyboard shortcuts
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Lets you set browser keyboard shortcuts containing Ctrl and Alt keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+P, Ctrl+Shift+C, etc.) to do nothing. Just head on over to chrome://extensions/shortcuts and assign away! Small, simple, and requires no permissions.
Licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0. Source: https://git.benjamin.barenblat.name/disable-keyboard-shortcuts
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-07) Bruno Ramos: Stopped CTRL-W closing tab issue, thank god
- (2025-07-01) Kate McKenzie: Does the job. Just don't overlook the unintuitive fact that it needs to be configured in Chrome Extension Shortcuts, rather than the extension itself.
- (2025-06-08) Trent Isaacson: Can't set a Ctrl + Alt shortcut, which was the only purpose I had for it. :(
- (2025-05-16) Joey Garner: Doesn't work, or is so unintuitive it can't be reasonably figured out. I installed the plugin > restarted my browser (just incase) > clicked on the plugin in the panel section of my nav bar > no options open up this tool. The tool is greyed out (not active state) for no apparent reason.
- (2025-04-04) Martin Wermers-Pauly: Tried to use this extension to disable tab-switching via option-command + arrow keys left/right, but this did not work at all (while other deactivations like command-p worked). 🤷♂️
- (2025-04-02) Anas KASMI: good for fixing the cmd + w closing tab issue ! thank you !
- (2025-03-22) aboba is still funny?: perfect!!!!!!!!!
- (2025-03-03) אלון צוקר: Simply works. Death to Ctrl+Shift+W!!!!
- (2025-03-01) Wang Andi: tried disabling ctrl + n and it just open a new tab.
- (2025-02-24) Charlie Nguyen: You guys need to go to the Chrome Extensions Shortcuts to ADD the Keyboard shortcuts you want to disable. It works!
- (2025-01-29) David Kauffman: Works perfectly disabling ctrl+d for bookmarks - something I assure nobody in the history of chrome usage has wanted macro'd to a key so close to C and F.
- (2025-01-20) Space Doge: Doesn't work with num lock, so if i press ctrl numpad1 it still goes to the first tab. Please add more keys.
- (2025-01-11) Micamaster100: tried disabling ctrl + w and it just closed the shortcuts tab.
- (2024-12-17) John Rhee: Disabling Ctrl-K, for instance, not only disables Edge's unwelcome "jump to URL" function (Alt-D already does this), but it also disables the shortcut for ANY webpage (e.g., shortcut for adding hyperlink in Confluence and other webpages/docs).
- (2024-12-16) Gewalee Lek: It's simple stupid and it works! Suggestion: make the "how to configure" instructions more noticeable, as I believe many users won't read the extension description :P
- (2024-11-20) Krstia no: i couldnt play AI minecraft cuz i kept press CTRL and W to run and it closed the window each time i looked so stupid and my friends laughed at me on discord lmao but now this solved my problem thank u dev
- (2024-11-11) Swivelgames: No more hitting Alt+Left/Alt+Right and ruining whatever I've typed just because I switched platforms and wanted to jump a word, not go to the previous page. THANK YOU.
- (2024-10-07) Paul Irish: Simple and works. Viewed the source and it's as minimal as possible.
- (2024-10-03) John Giles (fLex0): Bad. Can't unbind F11 or F12. Only CTRL / SHIFT shortcuts can be removed.
- (2024-10-01) Froot Ponchi: Thank you, solves my issue of it constantly trying to create bookmarks when I accidentally hit ctrl D instead of ctrl F
- (2024-09-26) Corey Barber: Wonderful and useful! At my job I have to scan barcodes and sometimes the computer will think I'm doing a "Ctrl + J" input and open up the download history. Very annoying. Thanks to this, it's no longer an issue!
- (2024-09-21) Abel V: does the job
- (2024-08-20) Artem Plakhotniy: works as expected
- (2024-08-01) SYX Productions: terrible cant use it
- (2024-07-18) Nicolette Stockwell: Wow, amazing and simple and should be included natively in Chrome.
- (2024-07-11) Dario Barriga: Thanks. Now i can play the FNF Matt Mod in peace
- (2024-07-03) Greg Hough: Excellent! added that damn ctrl d and it's gone baby! can't wait to set more.
- (2024-06-29) muhammad jeff: i done disabled: ctrl + d = create bookmark ctrl + shift + w = close all tab chrome go go go go head so good she an honor roll she ride ride like a carnival i done did the impossible woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- (2024-06-20) Dave McAnulty: Working 2024, you do have to go into the extension and set what shortcuts you want ignored. I finally got rid of ctrl-d
- (2024-06-10) aya h: not working. the shortcuts are working.
- (2024-04-25) Hamid Ouahssoune: add a way to Pause the extension (turn off/on)
- (2024-04-18) Nick Bailey: Exactly what I was looking for to get rid of the stupid back and forward shortcut keys (which screw you over when typing an email in Gmail for example). Can't get it to disable the useless Ctrl+Tab shortcut as that immediately switches to the next tab.
- (2024-04-18) Nick Bailey: Exactly what I was looking for to get rid of the stupid back and forward shortcut keys (which screw you over when typing an email in Gmail for example). Can't get it to disable the useless Ctrl+Tab shortcut as that immediately switches to the next tab.
- (2024-03-05) Dmytro Korolkov: I'm using alt+num7 quite often for the bullet sign. Instead Chrome moves me to some stupid inner page, in case Num is not activated. I guess there are a lot of such issues. This extension helps to avoid such problem.
- (2024-03-03) konstabark: The only problem is that it can only catch Ctrl/Alt + "letter" type of shortcuts (e.g. not Ctrl + Tab). Aside from that it is works perfectly good!
- (2024-02-29) Zaw Min Thein: Works great. 2024
- (2024-02-22) Vitor Mourão: Works very easy, but you should place a button or menu link in the extension to the page: chrome://extensions/shortcuts
- (2024-02-21) Marco Lackovic: To use it click on the "Extensions" icon, then "Manage extensions", from the left menu select "Keyboard shortcuts", in the "Disable keyboard shortcuts" panel click on an "Edit" icon to add a shortcut you want to disable.
- (2024-02-19) 刺猬: I don‘t how to open it but it work before
- (2024-02-10) P Roper: I installed this to disable Gmail's stupid ctrl-Enter (send email) shortcut, that is ALWAYS on even if I disable Gmail's useless shortcuts. But it is not possible to enter "ctrl-enter" in the shortcuts field of this extension's settings. So I'm uninstalling it.
- (2024-02-01) oin C: nice!
- (2024-01-27) Nyla Joseph: Can't disable alt+home shortcut within Chrome (which resets current tab to Home). This is what I often hit accidentally, since the keys are sensitive and right next to each other and under my hand!
- (2024-01-25) Martinel Clark (Drago Cuven): As a game dev who uses turbowarp, this extension has really helped and is pretty much the only way i can properly use the ctrl and alt keys in my projects
- (2024-01-16) Victor Zhao: Very useful for me. I needed to disable Ctrl+Shift+W since my new mechanic keyboard is too sensitive that whenever I pressed Ctrl+W I always accidentally triggered Ctrl+Shift+W and closed all tabs. This issue has been solved thanks to this wonderful, easy-to-use extension!
- (2024-01-04) Stuart Glass: Looks great, but is there any way to disable opt+click ?
- (2023-12-19) Joshua Gentry: I need to disable Ctrl-W however I can't put Ctrl-W in because...it closes the tab, which is why I want to disable the shortcut. So for me this extension is useless.
- (2023-12-18) wu qilong: i like it
- (2023-12-15) Frank Zhou: I want to disable the Ctrl+Enter shortcute in Outlook with this but I cannot
- (2023-12-07) Hongxi Bai: very useful, thank you
- (2023-12-01) Lemon Turtle: works just go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts and do the command into the box
Statistics
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40,000
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Rating
3.8913 (184 votes)
Last update / version
2022-10-20 / 2.0.0
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