Can we enable or disable the hard reload menu in chrome using JS or jQuery?

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This question might seem repeated, but I have gone through this question, but I still have some questions remaining that are making me more and more curious about the working behind this logic. As it is a browser property, I think we cannot make changes to it using JS or jQuery, but I would really appreciate if someone could guide me on this.

Here is the screenshot of the menu that I am talking about:

I have the following questions regarding this:

Why does this popup appear for some links and does not appears for other? For example if I login into my sandbox and then go to the storefront, I have the option to do a hard reload but for the others this popup never appears.
In the question that I tagged above, they have disabled the cache in order to disable the hard reload popup, how does it work?

I have also gone through some questions suggesting that we can disable the keys like Ctrl + F5, Ctrl + R, Ctrl + Shift + R or Ctrl + Shift + F5, but what can be done to disable/enable the menu if the someone long press the reload button or right click on it?

I don't have a requirement or issue regarding this. I am just curious as this question have been bugging me from a week or so.

If someone has a take on this, please enlighten me.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Some people will say it is a duplicate question but its not as I have gone through most of those questions, but I was hoping for an answer suggesting if we can enable or disable that question using JS/jQuery or not. So I guess that question is still unanswered.

but if we work on demandware integration, then most of the storefronts have this function. But the same doesnt work if we try to open someone else' storefront. — Code_Ninja, Jul 17 '18 at 12:11
So, is there a way to enable or disable it using JS or jQuery? Still my question is unanswered. @Archer — Code_Ninja, Jul 17 '18 at 12:14
No - there is nothing you can do with Javascript. Close your developer tools and it will disappear. — Reinstate Monica Cellio, Jul 17 '18 at 12:16
@Archer thanks for that fact, I didnt knew about this, I guess there is a lot to learn about, so is there a way by which we can block that from happening? — Code_Ninja, Jul 17 '18 at 12:20
@Code_Ninja No it is not possible to have any influence on that menu/the devtools with JS. The most you can do as far as I'm aware is checking whether the dev tools are open or not. ([And even that is a bit of a hack](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7798748/find-out-whether-chrome-console-is-open)) — Ivar, Jul 17 '18 at 12:29
`window.onbeforeunload = function() { event.preventDefault(); }` — connexo, Jul 17 '18 at 12:32
okay thanks for the link @Ivar , I think now I can match the dots. — Code_Ninja, Jul 17 '18 at 12:32

Can we enable or disable the hard reload menu in chrome using JS or jQuery?

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