Disable F5 (Refresh) in a flex application - actionscript-3

I have a flex application with multiple tabs. If a user moves to the second tab, I need to disable the F5 (Refresh) key. How can I do it for IE?
I am not able to catch an event in case of F5, browser catches its first and refreshes the whole application. I don't want that to happen.
I guess IE runs a flash application as activex and in IE F5 key is not passed to activex, this is because I am facing such a problem. Is it correct?
Any solution?

You can do this from javascript. Stop the browser refresh as mentioned here and here.

add keydown event listener in your html file such like:
function (e):{
if (e.keycode == keyboard.F5){
// game.preventEvent is a interface your app provide to
// decide stop event or not
if (game.preventEvent){
e.preventdefault()
}
}

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I think I found the issue, reading through a discussion on an electron issues board.
It could potentially be caused by this: [inspector] Add custom error dispatch machinery for debug evaluate.
And hopefully fixed in this: [inspector] Don't trigger window.onerror with side-effects disabled.
This was an oversight in https://crrev.com/c/3557234, which led to a really weird developer experience: once a window.onerror handler was installed, typing into the Console or other side-effect free debug evaluations triggered this handler.
The website you are inspecting contains an onerror event listener.
A new bug in the latest version of Chrome triggers this event every time an expression is evaluated in DevTools. This includes live expressions and the console.
If this is your own website, add this line of JavaScript to your event listener to ignore any errors triggered outside of a script, where script is the second argument of the event listener function:
if(!script.endsWith(".js")) return;
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If this is not your website, you can temporarily disable the event listener in DevTools, like this:
At the top of DevTools, open the "Elements" tab
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I was trying to figure out how to get some focus/blur behavior working for something when I ran into a really strange and annoying behavior in the Chrome debugger where I got an infinite loop while trying to debug an onfocus handler. It seems to be related to any action which takes focus away as I've been able to reproduce it using alerts instead of a breakpoint.
Here is my minimal example. Make sure you open this in another tab. Closing the tab is the only way I've found to end the loop.
https://codepen.io/cebo494/pen/OJxVZxq
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Chrome Extension: Network Panel - Need to disable default question mark triggering help behavior

I am developing a Chrome extension that adds a custom devtools panel. My panel has some text boxes that allow user input, but any time I type a question mark, it opens Chrome help instead of tying the '?' character. Is there a way to stop this behavior?
UPDATE:
I should have mentioned that I'm using React in my extension and that I was using React's synthetic events.
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Is there a native Chrome-way shortcut without running a custom script?
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// ==UserScript==
// #name F8 to debug
// #version 0.1
// #description Press F8 when the console is open to trigger 'debugger'
// #author Drakes
// #grant none
// #require none
// ==/UserScript==
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function KeyCheck(e) {
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I do have a better solution without changing anything on the code.
Below trick is valid on Chrome Webtools, and for others I haven't checked.
Steps to put debug on drag and drop or even on any event of your choice
Open Dev Tools, jump to the sources tab, and check out the Event Listener Breakpoints
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are done
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