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Re:Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tab... by reneherse on Saturday March 25, 2017 @12:53AM (#13954175)
Good riddance indeed! A big thank you from me and my blood pressure to the developers who finally pushed through the removal of that godforsaken nightmare of a human interface feature :)
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Re:Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tab... by btschaegg on Saturday March 25, 2017 @01:29PM (#13956644)
Agreed, and although I get that patches breaking muscle memory are annoying, the potential downsides to that are so disastrous that the arguments around it puzzle me quite a bit to this day.

In fact, the whole conversation surrounding this issue made me see for that, although hyperbolic, XKCD 1172 [1] actually isn't that contrived...

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/

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