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.
Pretty sure that’s been the shortcut since Mozilla Phoenix (now Firefox) introduced tabs in 2002 or so.
CTRL + SHIFT + T (multiple times if needed) will reopen the last closed tab.
Problem solved
I know, but this happens only when editing text. Tab closed = text gone.
Doesn’t your browser warn you about closing a tab with an active text input field in it? I get an “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popup.
It needs to be an active form, text field is not sufficient.
Not with CTRL + W
It “force closes” the tab. Correct me if I’m wrong.
I get the same warning popup behavior closing the tab with the mouse or with ctrl-w
Hmm just tested cause I was curious. I guess it depends on the site?
Firefox and chromium still prompted me with “are you sure” using CTRL+W on gmail and lemmy but closed without confirmation on Twitter
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/
There’s also Ctrl+delete which deletes the word after the cursor.
Dude stop blowing my mind
Pull the W-key from your keyboard.
Realistically, how often do you even use the W-key? It’s practically useless as is.
(just for completenes sake: /s)
Yeah, just use vv instead.
