1806459 - Offer Some Way for Profiler Shortcut to Be Prioritized

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Performance Tools (Profiler/Timeline), enhancement, P3)

Description

[David Shin[:dshin]]

(Not sure if the right component for UI-related suggestion)

While investigating Bug 1768308, I found that Google Maps would take Ctrl+Shift+1 (Shortcut to start the profiler) as "toggle satellite/map view." Having to click on the profiler icon caused more complications due to hover events generated while moving the cursor.

Further down the road, I discovered a way to prevent websites from overriding keyboard shortcuts, by:

• Click on the lock icon beside the address
• Click on "Connection Secure"
• Click on "More Information"
• Go to Permissions tab
• Find "Override Keyboard Shortcuts"
• Uncheck "Use Default" and select "Block"

It'd be nice if the profiler toolbar icon can be toggled so that instead of the keypress event going to the site, it starts the profiler.

Comment 1

[Nazım Can Altınova [:canova][:canaltinova on phabricator]]

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. We track the about:profiler, popup and UI related bugs in the Devtools::Performance Tools component, so moving it there.