New 2024 has strange browser popup on Ctrl-Alt-Click
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In previous versions when I performed a Ctrl-Alt-Click on a Propery, it took me to the implementation and now it pops up some browser debug window. Is this now expected?
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Please also disable UI/icon related plugins for issue isolation purpose. If the issue persists, please file a new ticket in YouTrack(https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues) with the zipped log folder(Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data) and screencast to demonstrate the issue.
new case opened
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/23205219719314-New-2024-has-strange-browser-popup-on-Ctrl-Alt-Click
sorry, how about this
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-364646/Cltr-Alt-Left-Click-is-bringing-up-a-chrome-debugger
Hi, I am still getting the com.intellij.openapi.editor.impl.EditoeComponentImpl popup when doing a Ctrl-Alt-Click despite the keymaps being set to go to Implementation. Any fix for this?
The popup comes in at the side of IJ as soon as I do a Ctrl-Alt-Click
1. A short video to demonstrate the issue.
2. A sample project as reproducer.
3. The zipped log folder from "Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data".
I have a video and log but I am not sure how to attach them
2025_07_22_YhCC2ZGS3ZM6grxSjSAS7d
Here is the video 2025_07_22_YhCC2ZGS3ZM6grxSjSAS7d
No it does not
1. Disable all custom plugins via "Settings | Plugins | ⚙ | Disable all downloaded plugins".
2. File > Invalidate Caches.. > enable Clear file system cache and Local History option > Invalidate and Restart
3. If the issue persists, please share the latest log then.
that did not work either.
here is the new log 2025_07_23_243vDrYJNRuHMiCCYSxNnp
FWIW, i can't get rid of Guidewire as the “classes” are not java but Gosu so i need GW to run.
If the issue is reproducible with all custom plugins disabled from any projects, then it might be an IJ platform issue. If it is only reproducible with certain plugin enabled and from specific projects only(with Gosu for example), then we might focus on that direction.
From the log trace, it seems that "gw.gosu.ij.codeInsight.completion" has its way to influence "com.intellij.openapi.editor.impl.CaretModelImpl.runForEachCaret", have you tried disabling that plugin?
i managed to turn off ALL plugins and was able to reproduce the issue. I just had to find some java instead of Gosu to play with
Logs are here
2025_07_24_zomm4dQWEFFLmEmsBJHTJM
1. Disable all custom plugins via "Settings | Plugins | ⚙ | Disable all downloaded plugins". In your latest test as per the log, Gherkin (241.14494.150), Cucumber for Java (241.14494.158), Zalando OpenAPI Editor (1.3.0) are still disabled.
2. Restore Keymap to default from " File | Settings | Keymap".
3. Share the latest log if the issue persists. I would expect no more enabled plugins seen from the log and focus on an error trace and see the difference.
same thing
Log attached
2025_07_25_qiqxLgpvx928PqnTL3zt2h
You have enabled Internal Mode in IntelliJ, which uses Ctrl+Alt+Click to open the UI Inspector.
Please click `Help | Edit Custom Properties`, remove idea.is.internal=true and restart the IDE to disable this Ctrl-Alt-Click feature.
Also, you can re-enable your plugins and use your previous keymap.
See the below link for details:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/enabling-internal.html
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/internal-ui-inspector.html
actually that menu option is greyed out. Where is that file stored so I can look at it?
C:\Guidexxxxx\WS-xxxxx\Suite\Contactxxxx\.idea\settings\config\idea.properties (I have masked some sensitive info in this file path)
C:\Users\<your_system_username>\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\IdeaIC2022.3\idea.properties
:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.3.3\idea.properties
Does it help?
interesting, I don't have an idea.properties file in any of those 3 places
the only one i do see is
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2024.1.7\bin\idea.properties"
Do you have idea.is.internal=true in the below places:
C:/Guidexxx/WS-xxx/xxxxx/Contactxxxx/.idea/settings/idea.properties (from the log, it seems this file is in this location actually)
C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2024.1.7\bin\idea.properties
If yes, try to remove that entry and restart the IDE.
sorry for some reason i didn't have a properties file in ContactManager but today it is there.
However there was no setting for internal in either of the files. I even tried setting it to false and it still didn't work'
FWIW, when i set it to false in ContactManager, after starting IJ again, it modified the file and wiped out that setting.
As for this issue, yes, it only started once i upgraded to IJ 2024.1.7
That's odd. Can you please open `File | Settings | Keymap`, search `UI inspector` there.
Can you find an action named `UI inspector` like the attached picture? Please right-click that entry to remove that shortcut.
Would it help?
YAY, that was it. I had to restart after it to have it take effect. That really shouldn't be on by default and it is interesting that it overrides my other setting.
THANK YOU for your patience!
to be quite honest, I am not sure what that feature even does as it seems to be very confusing but it definitely shouldn't be on by default IMHO