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Okay what the fuck is wrong with browsers and having the stupidest hotkeys? NO, I would NOT like a shortcut for saving the webpage as html. Please disable ctrl-s by default!
I just want my backspace key to go back a page in my history when I press it, LIKE IT USED TO BE FOR 20+ YEARS.
But no, this is apparently a "poor UI experience", so I have to put my hand on my mouse, locate the pointer, move it to the back button, and then click.
At least Firefox allows you to rummage around under the hood and set it back.
That's fair but you can also use Alt + right/left arrow keys to move forward and back in the page history
Or the side mouse buttons can go forward and back as well. Used to annoy me until I got used to it though
I changed them to previous tab / next tab with xmousebuttoncontrol, it's awesome {ACTIVATE}{CTRL}{PGUP}
I use these mouse buttons in file explorers and electron apps too, it's actually surprising the number of apps that works on.
For some reason recently on EndeavourOS I haven't been able to use any hot keys on Firefox. No CTRL+arrows, no backspace, no CTRL+H. Not sure what happened
I bet that's because people trying to type into textbox would sometime defocus, hit back and lose all their text. At least back should go back if there's no data to lose in the tab !
Apparently you can get backspace back with
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/backspace-enabler/
I also just gestures to go back with
https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy
You draw a leftward line with rightclick and it goes back
exactly, I accidentally lost a few things back when backspace was the default
alt+left is not that bad of a replacement
You can fix this without an extension.
about:config, browser.backspace_action, 0
Yes, if I could I would un-bind all keys, then look at the list of possible actions and devise my own keyboard control scheme to my liking. And then I should be able to export that to a standardized keybinding file format and carry it with me to other computers and preserve my keybindings.
Games often suffer from the same issue.
I've even made a list of features a keybindings control should have.
Whoever made the decision to bind Ctrl-Q (something right next to Ctrl-W) as Quit/Close Window needs to be shot.