Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by drewg123 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:44AM (#22423978)

> [Google] Docs started to experience selective performance issues and bugs on Firefox

As a firefox user, the thing that annoys the hell out of me is the inability to use the mouse menu for cut and paste in Google Docs unless you're using chrome. I don't understand why it forces you to use the keyboard shortcut. I'm an emacs user, and find the windows-y keyboard shortcuts foreign, so I have to think about them, and prefer just using the right-click mouse menu.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by nikofeyn on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:56PM (#22425983)

> I'm an emacs user, and find the windows-y keyboard shortcuts foreign, so I have to think about them, and prefer just using the right-click mouse menu.

it's a little surprising to me that you can't remember cut, copy, and paste that works on any computer in the last two decades but can remember all of the esoteric emacs shortcuts, which include references to a key that doesn't even exist.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by drewg123 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:51PM (#22426603)

Emacs is unchanged muscle memory for the last 30+ years. Cut is ctrl-k (or ctrl-w depending on your perspective), yank is ctrl-y. How many WYSIWYG editors have risen and died in that time? How many desktop environments?

And the "cut copy and paste that works on any computer" -- on a windows pc its ctrl-blah, and on a mac its cmd-blah.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by sp332 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:53AM (#22424053)

I just tried this in Firefox and it worked fine?

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by benjaminjackman on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:56AM (#22424088)

I think it was recently fixed, because I remember getting the messages gp mentions but haven’t for a while now.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by cptskippy on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:13PM (#22426183)

For me, Copy works but Paste results in dialog telling me to use the keyboard.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by kingofpandora on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:58AM (#22424105)

I used to have this problem but the behaviour has changed and it works fine now.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by drewg123 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:52PM (#22426620)

I just got it today, with firefox 73

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