Untriaging it so that it gets addressed.

Some web pages, including gmail and, I guess, google.com, trap Shift+ESC and therefore this keyboard shortcut fails to invoke task manager.

Fixing this would require either a change to google.com, or changing Chrome to not allow web pages to trap Shift+ESC (which is unlikely).

This should probably be closed as won't fix.

This was also filed as  issue 317276  but somehow that bug became Chrome OS only and "fixed" by moving the hotkey to Search+Esc.

On Linux and Windows, it would be nice to ensure Shift+Esc always opens the task manager. If a website is hogging CPU and eating Shift+Esc as well, that'd be annoying.

Does Gmail or Search actually *use* Shift+Esc? Or do they just eat Esc with or without modifiers? If they do the same thing, I don't see the argument for not reserving Shift+Esc.

We should probably file an internal bug on Gmail and Search so that they can investigate. I don't object to your idea, but let's consult with +pkasting regarding the non-ChromeOS shortcuts handling.

In gmail shift+esc shifts focus to the chat window. Not sure what it does on google.com.

The issue is that shift+esc is a perfectly reasonable thing for a website to assume it can use.

I really think Chrome should move this somewhere where it wont conflict and not allow an override, but it's not my call to make.

My inclination is that Chrome should just reserve this shortcut, but that's mostly out of irritation that shift+esc is a terrible choice for "change focus".  It's completely random.  I suppose in theory some site could have a non-random use for it that actually makes sense.

But whatever the shortcut is, Chrome should probably reserve it.  And given how many years we've had this, and its closeness to the Windows Task Manager shortcut (which is why we picked it to begin with), I don't think we can move it.

This is an issue with far more sites than google.com and Gmail.  Trello also captures shift-esc, as does Google Docs, Inbox, Microsoft Sharepoint's document viewer...  These are just the tabs I have open now where shift-esc doesn't open Task Manager.  Even pressing shift-esc while this textbox has focus doesn't immediately open the Task Manager for me -- it just unfocuses the textbox, although that appears to be the fault of some extension I have installed rather than Monorail.

It's not feasible to make every site and extension that traps shift-esc change their behaviour; this needs to be addressed in Chrome, whether that's by changing the shortcut or reserving shift-esc.

Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

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Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!