Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.

Also, don't get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

The one I absolutely loathe (maybe because I run into it more often) is them stealing when I press Ctrl+f to focus their page's search textbox.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've got a friend who scrolls webpages by middle-clicking and moving the cursor down.

Drives me insane every time I see her do it.

[–] raina@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is she a Firefox user too, then? I feel handicapped in Chromium browsers when middle-clicking does fuck all. If it's more than three wheel spins away, I too engage "auto-scroll", as it's called. Of course you can also scroll fast if your mouse wheel unlocks and spins freely but with the middle click auto-scroll, you can also go slow and indefinitely, which can be handy for longer reads or for presentation / screen share purposes.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pretty sure it's a Windows feature, because I've done it by accident in Chromium browsers, but only on Windows.

But yeah she's a Firefox user.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Me neither, I grab the scrollbar and speed up/slow down as i'm scrolling through the page. Scroll wheel is 1 speed.

I also disable smooth scrolling. When I do use the wheel, I hate it when I can see text move to a position and I have to wait for the animation to finish. Nah, I want it to move there instantly, not slowly but smoothly.

[–] Ad4mWayn3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Page Up/Page Down gang

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Me neither

I use vim keybindings