[v1.17.x] Alt-s (Toggle SurfingKeys on current site) stopped working

[clarkwang]

Since settings.blocklistPattern is not working (#2154) I tried <Alt-s> but it does not work either.

[gou4shi1]

Same here.

[clarkwang]

Enabling Developer mode does not fix the issue for me. Actually it's already enabled in my Chrome before updating to v1.17.

Steps I tried:

1. Developer mode is initially enabled
2. Disable Developer mode, then restart Chrome
3. Enable Developer mode, then restart Chrome
4. Now try <Alt-s> but it does not work for me.

[i-zanis]

Experiencing same as above with dev mode on Vivaldi and Chrome.

[anderamko]

Please turn on Developer mode from chrome://extensions/ then restart your browser, it should work, see more #2159

This works but I can't stay whole day in dev mode.

EDIT: what works is:

1. Enable dev mode.
2. Restart chrome.

[clarkwang]

Please turn on Developer mode from chrome://extensions/ then restart your browser, it should work, see more #2159

This works but I can't stay whole day in dev mode.

Enabling Developer mode does not fix the issue for me.

[lpanebr]

Enabling Developer mode does not fix the issue for me.

[aspiers]

I already had Developer mode permanently enabled. Restarting Chrome on a newer version after an upgrade of Chrome triggered this problem. I'm guessing the restart caused SurfingKeys to be upgraded to the new MV3 version which has this bug. I hope this can be fixed soon because SurfingKeys is totally unusable for me without Alt-s functioning, as I rely heavily on native shortcuts on some sites (e.g. gmail, github).

[brookhong]

This should have been fixed in 1.17.1.

[aspiers]

I'm already on 1.17.1 and it's still the same bug :-(

[brookhong]

Hum, yes, there is still something need to be fixed, so far Alt-s would just disable current site on next page load(you could see how it works after page reloading), which is not expected, would fix this on next release.

[frankzvitale]

Also here to report the same issue, Alt-s is no longer working for me unfortunately. This also completely breaks the extension for me since I use native Jira keyboard shortcuts

[aspiers]

The temporary workaround is to use Alt-i to enable pass-through, but it's a pain having to do that every time you open a site which requires it.

[aspiers]

It's actually a lot worse than I thought:

• Alt-i is cancelled by Escape so if you need to work on a website which uses Escape as a shortcut (and this is common), then every time you need to use it, you have to press Escape Escape Alt-i
• Clicking on the extension icon and disabling SurfingKeys altogether doesn't work: it's shown as disabled but is still active! This is tracked in SurfingKeys does not disable on Chrome #2171.

BTW this is the ninth time this issue has happened 😢 See #101, #167, #168, #169, #170, #182, #382, and #1244 for the others. I'm not sure why it keeps happening, but as before I strongly recommend coding some regression tests so that it can never happen again.

[aspiers]

I've had to disable the extension altogether 😢 There was no other way to stop it making sites like Gmail and Figma unusable. I really hope this issue can be fixed soon.

[NoRePercussions]

You can still build the last public version from source. It's less desirable than having it in the web stores, but it's fully functional.

[aspiers]

You can still build the last public version from source. It's less desirable than having it in the web stores, but it's fully functional.

Good idea, thanks - I've done that. Unfortunately the installation steps are not fully documented; this is fixed in #1919 but it hasn't been merged yet.

[commiyou]

Based on the f152a9a build. You can refer to https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/get-started/tutorial/scripts-on-every-tab for installation.

sk.zip

[AnkushMalaker]

Is this build supposed to fix it? It doesn't on my install @commiyou
Infact, I can't even disable or enable this using the GUI which sounds like #2171

[commiyou]

After following the documentation and installing the zip attachment, I can disable the extension using the shortcut

[brookhong]

Fixed in 1.17.3.

[nanikit]

Is this issue really fixed? I'm currently using version 1.17.3 with the following settings and developer mode enabled:

settings.blocklistPattern = /(github\.dev|codesandbox\.io)/i;

I can't use VSCodeVim on github.dev, it behaves awkwardly. I'm not sure if this happens only to me, but the only workaround I've found is to disable this extension.

[clarkwang]

Is this issue really fixed?

It works for me. I have something like this:

settings.blocklistPattern = new RegExp('^https://(calendar|docs|drive|keep).google.com');