Gmail seems to capture all keyboard events. Any way to go around that?

I don't know the inner workings of GMail's keyboard event capturing, but I recently wrote a simple keyboard shortcut navigator (so I don't have to use the mouse to click links) for Chrome.

It's not an extension, but a user/Greasemonkey script, but it's triggered by typing comma (,) twice, and it works in GMail.

Maybe it'll help you to look at the source. You can download it here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/68609

Okay I have a working solution, reverse engineered from the onePassword plugin. I can only guess as to why this works, I asume it's because of adding the event to the input elements. However Change anything and it stops working (the redir call on the bottom is on the bottom for a reason)

function redir(e) {    e.focus();    var h = document.createEvent("KeyboardEvent");    h.initKeyboardEvent('keydown', true, true);    e.dispatchEvent(h)}$("input").each(function(t,l) {redir(l)});document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {    if (e.ctrlKey && e.keyCode) {      if (e.keyCode == 190) {        chrome.extension.sendRequest({name: "spot-openPopUp"});      }    }},false);redir(document.body);

As you can see I used redirection. This example is really crude btw so don't just use it

You could try a process of redirection:

if (document.body.onkeypress) {    // add as event listener instead    var kpfunc = document.body.onkeypress;    document.body.addEventListener('keypress', kpfunc, true);}