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"Backspace" to go back was new to me, and just sounds like a terrible idea, you'd be accidentally deleting things all the time. Firefox does not have "Go back" accessible through the menu, although the "Backspace" keystroke works. Chrome also does not have a "Go back" accessible through the menu that I can find. Hovering over the Back button shows how to click to access history.
> although the "Backspace" keystroke works Does not work for me, FF 38. This feature used to throw me out of forms all the time, there has been a couple of years that it stopped. Now the only FF keystroke that annoys me is the CTRL-q for closing the window, that conveniently is just by the side of CTRL-w for closing the tab, and does not save the window state.
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Jeez if stellaris is considered deep what'd be your opinion on distant world: universe? Mind you I'm enjoying it but many parts fall extremely flat. Like corvette balance and topped war scores.
Apparently a game called M.O.R.E. is lurking around, promising all kinds of crazy depth (I'm super sad how bad SotS 2 was :( ) I totally agree that Stellaris kind of falls flat atm IMO - the foundation is rock solid, the game looks gorgeous and the music just blows you away...but then you play on Hard and literally nothing happens for 6 hours. Eventually a war happens and instantly degenerates into a massive my-blob-…
> massive my-blob-chasing-your-blob-benny-hill-nonsense
In our attempts at multiplayer, we've already reduced ourselves to calling this "Yakety Saxxing".
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#473Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Backspace" to go back was new to me, and just sounds like a terrible idea, you'd be accidentally deleting things all the time. Firefox does not have "Go back" accessible through the menu, although the "Backspace" keystroke works. Chrome also does not have a "Go back" accessible through the menu that I can find. Hovering over the Back button shows how to click to access history.
> although the "Backspace" keystroke works Does not work for me, FF 38. This feature used to throw me out of forms all the time, there has been a couple of years that it stopped. Now the only FF keystroke that annoys me is the CTRL-q for closing the window, that conveniently is just by the side of CTRL-w for closing the tab, and does not save the window state.
> Does not work for me, FF 38. This feature used to throw me out of forms all the time, there has been a couple of years that it stopped.
Are you on Linux? Backspace to go back only works on Windows and OS X because this behavior was apparently un-Linux-like. You can change this behavior with the browser.backspace_action about:config pref:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
Here is a Firefox bug to make Backspace work on Linux Firefox the same as it does on Windows and OS X:
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#474It's the most frequently used key for me when I browse.
Any way to add it back? Maybe an extension?
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#475I'm going to take a somewhat contrarian view and say, "Thank you, Chrome developers." It's always easy to tell apart the people who know shortcuts from the people who don't, if you watch them use their computers. Someone with a few shortcuts on tap will zoom around their monitors, switching between mouse and keyboard only when necessary. But there are a few shortcuts and user interface quirks that are too outdated an…
I concur with this. I know about the shortcut, but I've never intentionally used it. Instead, it trolls me a lot when I'm typing comments and I lose them when trying to edit something.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#476Chrome / Chromium have a habit of making these arbitrary changes that seriously annoy some (arguably small) percentage of their users, while claiming that it makes it simpler / better for everyone else, while explaining impatiently why it's infeasible to make the now missing feature a configuration option. Evidently the kinds of people that can't be bothered going into the Advanced Configuration Settings page would b…
> clicking inside the URL bar selects the whole contents This is one of the annoyances on Windows. On Linux/OSX you can click and drag on the URL to select a portion of the string, but on Windows it auto-highlights the full string completely, forcing one to reclick again (slowly!) to highlight a portion. Also: right-clicking on a link in Linux/OSX auto-highlights the full link text so you can `Copy` or `Search on Goo…
I'm running Chrome in Win10 and it does the exact behavior you describe only Linux/OSX doing.
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> and the scariest thing for me now is that we'll lose the control we get with current FF options That seems unstoppable for a long time now. There's no browser for power users in modern world.
Vivaldi? I haven't used it recently, but it seems top be aimed at this group
Not at all, it's closed source
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#478I'm going to take a somewhat contrarian view and say, "Thank you, Chrome developers." It's always easy to tell apart the people who know shortcuts from the people who don't, if you watch them use their computers. Someone with a few shortcuts on tap will zoom around their monitors, switching between mouse and keyboard only when necessary. But there are a few shortcuts and user interface quirks that are too outdated an…
> I'm going to take a somewhat contrarian view and say, "Thank you, Chrome developers."
While I agree with you, the problem is that keyboard shortcuts aren't completely configurable. If they were, the Chrome developers could just tell the whiners to go pound sand and configure it themselves.
The problem is that the Chrome developers don't want to put in the hard work to make keyboard shortcuts properly configurable. They want to take the shortcut of just removing the functionality and everybody to go away.
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That's nice for you. I use backspace exclusively to go back, and I use it very, very often. I have never once done so accidentally.
Me too. Is there any other dedicated button or shortcut that would work better for that purpose for us? I suspect there is, but I don't know what it would be yet.
Two finger swipe right.
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#480All True Hackers use shift-h anyways ;-) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
I think I found out about Vimium through an HN post/comment and I've been using it ever since. It's pretty much the first Chrome extension I get after a fresh install, along with uBlock origin.