Who Killed the Scrollbar?

Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by eropple on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:00PM (#21357543)

I'm super curious--how often do you actually use the menu and what do you use it for? I ask because I literally can't remember the last time I did in Firefox; everything's a keyboard shortcut. Fullscreen is F11, inspector is F12, refresh is F5 (even go-to-URL-bar is F6).

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by JohnFen on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:30PM (#21358423)

> I'm super curious--how often do you actually use the menu and what do you use it for?

I use the menu really frequently -- for pretty much anything that isn't a toolbar button.

I tend not to use keyboard shortcuts generally, but particularly if I'm just reading a website -- in that situation, my hands are on the mouse, not the keyboard, and moving to the keyboard to type a shortcut is more inconvenient than just being able to use two clicks on a menu.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by jandrese on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:46PM (#21357994)

I pull down the History menu reasonably often. I'm one of the few people who still uses bookmarks too. I found that hitting alt was annoying and I'd forget about the menu and try to find stuff on the Hamburger menu instead and get annoyed.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by JohnFen on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:35PM (#21358468)

Now that you mention it, I also use the history menu pretty frequently. I don't use the bookmark facility in browsers, though, because I run my own bookmark server (so I have access to my bookmarks no matter what computer or browser I'm using).

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by Miraste on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:44PM (#21358552)

Maybe you know this already, but Firefox has shortcuts for both of those. History is Ctrl+H and bookmarks is Ctrl+B. Ctrl+Shift+H and Ctrl+Shift+B to get them in a separate window.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by jandrese on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:01PM (#21358673)

The Ctrl-H history opens up the annoying sidebar though, and then you have to click to expand. It's not as ergonomic as the menu. The Bookmarks have the same problem.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by eropple on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:54PM (#21358063)

Huh. I use bookmarks a lot, too--but I use them via the omnibar. Type the first few letters and I'll find it from there.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by frosted-flakes on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:06PM (#21360463)

Just put the History menu dropdown in the toolbar beside the hamburger menu.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by airstrike on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:30PM (#21357855)

go-to-URL-bar is also Ctrl+L which I tend to favor, for some reason

Also I miss typing ".." in the URL bar to go to my home page (I'll admit this was an iexplore quirk, albeit a really convenient one...)

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