People expect technology to suck because it sucks

Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by Mountain_Skies on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:03PM (#24592445)

Edge, or at least the Chromium version of it, has changed the navigate back key to be ALT+Left Arrow instead of the backspace key. It was annoying at first because I have over two decades of muscle memory for hitting backspace to go back. After a couple of days I got used to it and now am happy I can backspace without accidentally navigating away because focus wasn't where I thought it was.

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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by mook on Saturday September 26, 2020 @01:33AM (#24596677)

Alt+Left/Right navigating through history has been in IE since at least IE4. I don't recall if it worked before then, and trying to look up ~25 year old documentation is somewhat difficult (especially since it would have shipped in a WinHelp file with the software instead).

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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by Mountain_Skies on Saturday September 26, 2020 @02:03AM (#24596760)

Since backspace worked in every IE version up until Edge/Chromium, I never knew the ALT+arrows combinations worked. It wasn't until backspace stopped working that I did a search to find what was going on and saw the ALT key combos. So they may have been there all along but I never had reason to find out about them until recently.

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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by Macha on Saturday September 26, 2020 @07:40AM (#24598015)

Pretty sure I've been using Alt-Left as my back shortcut in Firefox for over a decade also

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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by nickflood on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:05PM (#24595296)

This was a change that Chromium introduced in July 2016. I remember it being slightly controversial at the time and the issue from the tracker being posted to HN :)

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