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		mahouse on Feb 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The curious case of disappearing Polish S Not only it would not reload the page, it would retweet the currently selected tweet. It was silly. But what's really silly is that the browser actually allows a webpage to override such a basic shortcut like F5.

EastSmith on Feb 3, 2015 [–]

Twitter also once hooked CTRL+F (find in windows) so it can favor the currrent tweet. Horrible.

nitrogen on Feb 3, 2015 | [–]

That sounds like a deliberate dark pattern. Try to reload? Retweeted. Looking for something? Favorited.

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