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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:43:44AM +0000, Paul Mc Auley wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:51:47AM +0000, Earle Martin wrote: > | What fucktard decided that hitting "backspace" should cause your browser to > | go back a page? There are ALREADY NAVIGATION SHORTCUTS. (In my case > | [Firefox], Alt-Left Arrow means "go back".) The only time that I ever use > > That would be the same maternal copulation obessed morons who decided that > it's okay to map Ctrl-U to 'View Source', because obviously there would be > no reason for me to want to be able to clear say, the URL field and then > paste something into it. > > And of course I don't trip over this one every time I reflexively go to > clear a text field. With Firefox on Linux the Ctrl-U in text boxes actually works as god intended. The trouble is, Firefox (and Gecko in general) has a habit of sometimes letting the focus wander off to who knows where. Sometimes that means you still get view-source, or worse, nothing happens at all and you've no idea what you just prodded with Ctrl-U or what it might have done about it. Galeon used to be even more of a fucker in this respect. You'd be there for five minutes trying to work out why the page refused to scroll based on keyboard input, giving your fingers cramps by trying to scroll with the mouse all the time, and eventually realise that all along you'd been scrolling some other tab. Thanks Galeon for that clever DWIM. Clearly whenever I want to use the keyboard extensively in one tab my first action is to hide it and look at something unrelated. -- --- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ --- "I tried to fling my shadow at the moon, The while my blood leapt with a wordless song." -- Theodore RoethkeThere's stuff above here
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