CTRL+Shift+I won't open developer tools on chatgpt.com, why?

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In Windows 11 Home with latest Microsoft Edge, latest Google Chrome, and latest Mozilla Firefox, I have the following problem:

CTRL+Shift+I won’t open developer tools on chatgpt.com, why?

I ran this question in Google Search, Microsoft Bing, and chatgpt.com itself and couldn’t find any focal and serious explanation to this strange behavior which I don’t recall occurring in any other website ever before; a website shouldn’t override my browser, rather, the opposite. Navigating to Settings > More tools > Developer Tools isn’t convenient and perhaps also isn’t accessible. What will you suggest to do?

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Because they have overridden that key combo to do something else (input custom instructions).

It can be quite helpful sometimes (e.g GitHub’s keyboard shortcuts) but a PITA other times, such as those websites that override the browser’s native search functionality with their own implementation.

Use F12 instead.

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They have used JavaScript to prevent it
and any other actions that they might
consider to be nefarious. :rofl:

Oooops, missed @James_Hibbard’s post

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Funny, there was a period about 3 years ago that F12 kept not working for me so I switched to CTRL+Shift+I since then.

Glad to know F12 still works or has been returned to work.