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Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - john-o - 11-16-2012
Subject says it all... Why would they bother removing a good keyboard shortcut like that?? I hate supporting Google, but Chrome seems better to me all the time...
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - Kiva - 11-16-2012
for me, I would frequently be typing in a field and hit backspace quickly and it would page me back. Irritating.
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - john-o - 11-16-2012
Good point Kiva. There's upsides and downsides to everything!
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - JoeH - 11-16-2012
Kiva wrote::agree:
for me, I would frequently be typing in a field and hit backspace quickly and it would page me back. Irritating.
That poor choice for a key shortcut always was annoying. It only made sense if you would never be entering text on web pages, and that never applied for my browsing.:mad2:
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - hal - 11-16-2012
it's not that much harder to type CMD- left arrow or CMD-[ is it?
This behavior of the delete key was always a windows thing in my mind...
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - ka jowct - 11-16-2012
I never knew that shortcut existed. I almost never use Safari, but when I do, I use the command -right bracket or command -left bracket keys (same as Firefox) and they have worked fine.
Mostly I use the forward/back toggle on my lovely Contour Mouse.
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - Buck - 11-16-2012
I always liked that shortcut and miss it.
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - silvarios - 11-16-2012
JoeH wrote::agree:
[quote=Kiva]
for me, I would frequently be typing in a field and hit backspace quickly and it would page me back. Irritating.
That poor choice for a key shortcut always was annoying. It only made sense if you would never be entering text on web pages, and that never applied for my browsing.:mad2:
This. Good riddance.
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - john-o - 11-16-2012
Wow, didn't know this would stir the pot so!
I agree that there are other shortcuts, but once you've developed muscle memory for something, it's hard to bread the habit... I know I was bitten more than once by the behavior when editing text, but it seemed infrequent enough to not be an issue. From what I can tell, as long as the cursor is actually active in a text box, the Delete shortcut won't go Back, it will delete text...
Still, I guess Buck and I are alone in missing the shortcut.
Re: Delete key used to go 'back' in Safari; why'd they remove that shortcut? - MysteryGuest - 11-17-2012
I didn't even know about that shortcut.
Bonus: still working on my antiquated setup!