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m0se / disable-brave-browser-keyboard-shortcuts.md
Created November 30, 2017 13:33
kill brave browser keyboard shortcuts

Workaround to stop Brave from interfering with OS shortcuts

Motivation

I have been looking forward to use Brave as main browser for a Year now and wasn't able to as I wanted to keep using my OS hotkeys for switching workspace Ctrl+[1-9] which Brave takes over when in focus for tab-switching.

Following the Issue brave/browser-laptop#1374 I didn't got the impression that this will be fixable via the config ui soon. So I took a look at the code, to see if there is a simple workaround and turns out there is.

Instruction

  1. Find and backup the app.asar in your local Brave installation

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