• Ephera@lemmy.mlOP
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, I have no trouble believing that. It took quite a while before I learned of this shortcut and when I did, I was wondering why I would ever want to use it.

    But I generally work from my laptop these days, without an external mouse connected, so reaching from my touchpad, the Left key is right there.

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      10 months ago

      Your reason for using it was exactly my question. “I have a mouse with a built in back button, why would I want to remove my hand from my mouse and navigate with the arrow key?”

      But your reason simply makes sense.

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      10 months ago

      You can probably go back by swiping two fingers to the right on the touchpad. Maybe it depends on the OS and browser.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, that works on my personal laptop, but not yet on my work laptop, because they insist on preinstalling an old, buggy OS. If that did work everywhere, I would probably be using that, but not breaking Alt+Left for whoever needs/wants it, would still be nice. 🫠

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          10 months ago

          Ok, that’s unfortunate. But I agree, the browsers default keybindings really shouldn’t be broken it’s really annoying. I hate it when middle click doesn’t work with some web pages. 😒

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            It really sucks when they break “open link in new tab”. I then have follow the stupid link, then middle click the back button to do what they broke.