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I frequently find myself using my keypad to enter Unicode characters, since it's much faster to type, e.g. ALT+2B50 ALT+FE0F than to dig around charmap or the Googles to find that character to copy/paste.

Unfortunately, I can't do that character, or others like it, when typing into a text input box in Chrome, because the ALT-F keypress is intercepted by Chrome to pop open the menu. (ALT-E does the same thing.)

Is there a way to tell Chrome, either permanently or temporarily, that I really do want the ALT-F and ALT-E keypress to count as text input, and not as accesskey-commands?

KutuluMike
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    If you have the Tampermonkey add-on installed in Chrome you can use [this userscript](https://github.com/calraith/gm_scripts/blob/master/Alt+Num_Extended_Char_Entry.user.js) to convert `U+2B50` to `⭐` by typing `2B50` and hitting Alt+X (like in MS Word). (`FE0F` would probably work as well, but I have no fonts with a glyph for that character.) [Full details](https://superuser.com/a/1216294/204705). – rojo Jun 06 '17 at 19:44

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Install Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) extension and disable at least (see also Chrome keyboard shortcuts)

  • Alt+d (Chrome default: Jump to the Address Bar);
  • Alt+e and Alt+f (Chrome default: Open the Menu):

Shortkeys

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