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While editing in an input field, I'm so used to going for Ctrl+W instead of Ctrl+Backspace because it's more ergonomic. But almost all modern browsers use Ctrl + W to close tabs. Since when was this a convention? I'd love to go back in time and git revert this change. Incredibly frustrating.

TL;DR: old man yelling at clouds.

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[–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

29 years here, get my first computer in 2011 after using it sometimes in my sister's house. Never used ctrl+backspace in my life and did not know it existed. Edit maybe you can try something like that? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys/

[–] ccryx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also Ctrl+delete which deletes the word after the cursor.

[–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Dude stop blowing my mind