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In short : Do browser shortcut keys depend on locale ?

More precisely :

The initial idea was to state whether disabling browser find by preventing default behavior for Ctrl+F in javascript do ALWAYS prevent browser search (putting aside browser search can be triggered by other means).

Reading this stackoverflow post, and @Joachim Sauer's comment Is it possible to disable Ctrl + F of find in page?, I tried to determine whether this was true :

Note that [...] it will not prevent the user [...] from using an alternative shortcut if he's using a locale that uses some other key-combination for searching.

Based on this FireFox documentation, it seems that Find is always Ctrl+F, even if locale is different.

I also found this chromium issue 5100, where someone complains that Windows has shortcuts that depends on local (Search is Ctrl+L in Portuguese for Localizar), whereas for chromium used in Portuguese local under Windows it is not the case (always Ctrl+F)

  • Do you confirm that in main browsers, shortcut keys do not depend on locale ?
  • Do you have any official documentation about it ?
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    If you want to prevent user to do some search on your page, you're wasting your time, not possible. You can open "Find" by pressing `F3`, it's found from "Edit" menu, you can search with Dev tools... – Teemu Nov 20 '13 at 12:50
  • I know about that point, which is solved in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7091538/is-it-possible-to-disable-ctrl-f-of-find-in-page post. But my question is about shortcut key being locale dependent. I will update the post so it is clearer. – JBE Nov 20 '13 at 12:57

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