alt.hn

7/20/2026 at 4:17:17 PM

Chrome installed a global Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut to launch Gemini

https://mastodon.online/users/mwichary/statuses/116952836351215165

by jervant

7/20/2026 at 6:47:01 PM

I fat-finger ctrl+f all the time, I like that it still brings up search function. It would be very annoying if it changed.

by tencentshill

7/20/2026 at 8:15:12 PM

TIL (on Firefox, atleast) CTRL+F and CTRL+G do the same thing, apparently?

by dpoloncsak

7/20/2026 at 10:29:10 PM

Almost. The intended use is for Ctrl-F to initiate an on-page search, and Ctrl-G to highlight the next match during a search-in-progress. If you press Ctrl-G when there isn't a search in progress, the developers decided to allow the fallback behavior to be to begin a search.

So they're interchangable in a specific context (no search in progress), but once the page search begins, their roles are different.

by DamnInteresting

7/21/2026 at 2:30:22 PM

You agreed to relinquish you control to Google (CTRL+G) when you installed Chrome.

by hulitu