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How about Base Sets for keyboard shortcuts that are further customizable?
HotCakeX I am having trouble with not having a shortcut key-combination for duplicating my active tab on this New Edge, to the extent that I have gone through the trouble of creating this discussion with thorough examples, motivation, its potential benefits and everything. The experience in this particular aspect is lacking, compared to what was available in the Old Edge.
Wondering my use case? Nowadays, I'm looking up a lot of English words from Bing.com. I want to keep an open tab for the words I've looked up for a review afterwards. A new tab, and e.g. "astute mean" brings me to the definition of that word. "Do it again" you might say, but you would be totally missing the point. I want to do it with less keystrokes and perhaps also the way I'm used to for god's sake... CTRL + K for a duplicate of my tab, where the Bing.com's dictionary mode is already active. On that mode, with just one TAB key, I get immediately to the dictionary's input box. Type my next word, "rudimentary" and ENTER, and so on...
A lot of pages with a search box, allow you to access that search box as the first thing as you press the TAB key. Wikipedia is one another example.
Hell, I just realized that the New Edge is also missing one thing that I have been using CONSTANTLY. CTRL + SHIFT + N to detach the current tab from the window, into a new window. Extremely useful, if you want to have two pages in your view. CTRL + SHIFT + N to detach, WINDOWS + LEFT to snap it to left, ENTER to select the left-behind window which will get snapped to right.
I can understand that a prejudiced mouse-frequenter can have a hard time understanding the utility of the particular benefit of keyboard-only navigability. However, everybody should be able to relate with being to do things the way you're accustomed to.
Duplicating an active tab is not a common thing. let's agree on that.
There are however 2 actions that once you combine together can act like a shortcut.
Try Alt + D to catch the URL from address bar and press Alt + Enter to paste it on a new tab.
so hold Alt and then press " D + Enter " (while still holding Alt) that can be a duplicate shortcut.
Also there are many extensions for these rare occasions.
for your special use case i recommend bookmarking that Bing website so it takes just a click (Middle Mouse button) to open it on a new tab which you can call it a duplicate of your active tab.
You are calling me names but none of them is true. again it's not my fault that websites on the internet Need mouse for interactions. browser interactions are Very small compared to interactions users have with the actual websites.
for example during your a 1 hour usage time of an internet browser, a user decides to remove tabs from the group and snap them to the sides. alright they can do it by drag and dropping it to the sides. takes 0.5 seconds. that's how Windows GUI is built for after all.
if Microsoft implement every user's shortcut request into this new browser which is rather light weight for now to compete with Chrome, then it would become a bloated browser that nobody wants. users already have a bad view towards Microsoft browsers, Internet explorer or EdgeHTML is called google chrome downloader by some people and so on. so they gotta be careful not to mess it up again. we all want the best for the future of Edge.
by the way I use keyboards only when dealing with Windows server core and other GUI-less stuff so i love both keyboard and mouse.
I'm a long time edge insider user, today i finally decided to create an account here because of a problem i am having with it and it's a great community with helpful suggestions, i have to admit it.
it took me few minutes to read this thread, great suggestions were brought up here also. I could definitely use some.
I have to agree on one thing, when you're encouraging others to be friendly, you have to practice it yourself as well. there are obviously differences of ideas and opinions and it's OK, it's fundamentally needed for every community to thrive. as a stranger who doesn't know anyone here personally, I felt that the word "hateful" is not suitable for this community, member HotCakeX was showing you her alternative ways and pointed out reasonable facts. member Drew1903 offered the same alternative way which is good and I personally have been utilizing it. utkangezer things in internet forums can escalate quickly, it's the best to stay calm.when I put myself as an edge developer who might review suggestions, i would like to know about pros and cons of a suggestion before integrating it into my project. utkangezer mentioned the possible pros and HotCakeX mentioned the possible cons. this is good and necessary.
Have a good day/night everyone!
Jem
utkangezer
It's likely things can & would be better addressed than by you ( or any other visitor) feeling they need to stay mum or away. I do, still, hope something will change your mind & perception, in the near future & going forward. One hopes good overshadows bad and things can be such that your experience won't continue to be tainted & the (bad) memory ebbs. (Certainly) Not, ever, wanted or right foraany person to be driven to feeling like that. I am sorry you do.
Cheers,
DrewDrew1903 Thank you for your compassion and tips. I hope these missing shortcuts gets addressed sooner or later, but hopefully before the full release.
I reflected on my own concern, and tried my best to come up with the most streamlined solution I can think of. Pity that the solution itself has never been discussed; whether it's as smooth and transparent to the uninitiated end-users as I hoped, and if there exists any oversights in the plan. I thought it would be welcoming, hence appealing and captivating the users that will try using the New Edge once it is released. That will be the key to success to any new browser, anyway.
Of course, from the sole selfish perspective, I'm just OK with having just about any, true shortcut for the functions that had one on the Old Edge; i.e. Duplicate tab, Move to new window.
Thank you again for being friendly, but I suppose I will just hold myself from offering any other suggestions that may come up to my mind, after this experience I had and keep having.
utkangezer
You're welcome. I'm with you on the limitations this has, but, as you say has potential to be handy, still.
You may already know that holding down the back button shows/gives History.
Cheers,
Drew- So it sounds like #5 works out for you the way you want, contains history, scroll position, entered texts and everything.
Drew1903 This does not duplicate the currently open tab, it re-opens the same address on a new tab. Couple of nuances to indicate the difference:
- Tab's history is not duplicated along, so you cannot go back/forward in history since there is none.
- Page's scroll position is not duplicated along, so you're back at top.
- Contents of the input forms are not duplicated along, they are fresh empty.
To me, losing the history is the foremost drawback of this workaround.
You may try these while replying to this post and see them for yourself:
- Reply
- Write something to the message box.
- Scroll a little down.
- ALT + D, then ALT + ENTER, will open a new tab in which you cannot go back in history, with a message box empty, and scrolled up top. CTRL + W to close.
- RIGHT CLICK on the tab and Duplicate, will open a duplicated tab in which you can go back in history, see a message box with all the text you had written so far, and is scrolled to the same position as you were.
Thank you for your help Drew1903! I indeed did not know that you could open the same address on a new tab using ALT + ENTER while the address bar is selected. That might come in handy.
@utkangezer
To repeat: The K/B shortcut, that already exists, for Duplicate tab is Alt+D-&-Alt+Enter
Cheers,
DrewFirst of all that's rude to call people hateful, you said it first and I ignored it and you said it again now. please watch your language. I've been being polite so far.
once again i'm telling you, there are people with difference views in the world, Nothing I did was wrong or unfriendly. it's not even about that, we are talking about Tech, there is Nothing personal here.
To duplicate tabs, Simply right click on the tab and select duplicate. that's it.there is not a 2 key shortcut for the keyboard equivalent but you can combine 2 things to form a 3 key shortcut for tab duplication. again as i said you can use this:
hold Alt and then press " D + Enter " (while still holding Alt) that can be a duplicate shortcut.
there are still extensions to help you do it with 2 key shortcuts, extensions are here to help with rare cases, missing features etc that are not commonly used by everyone, that's why they're dropped from the browser.
Think of it as Windows OS. it has some built in features that are used by everyone, but what if someone wants an extra feature? someone has a very specific need and function? for that there are Billions of software that user can install.utkangezer
Hi,
I apologize for the bad experience you have had here. Please, continue to contribute to & gain insights from the Forum.
Now, to answer your duplication shortcut query. There are K/B shortcuts for SO many functions including this. This sequence will Duplicate tab - Alt+D (hold the Alt key down) & Alt+Enter
Cheers,
DrewHotCakeX Lack of compassion, is hate. That is exactly what you are doing. Putting me and my troubles in disdain and negligence.
Believe it or not, I just had to use the Duplication feature once again. Vocabulary.com, for some reason, does not allow me to open links in new tabs via a CTRL + CLICK, or a RIGHT CLICK and then the context menu item. I could, however, duplicate the tab, unfortunately having to move my pointer all the way to the top of my browser, RIGHT CLICK and then the context menu item, then move the pointer back to the link I wanted to choose, then CLICK.
Believe it or not, you have made me sad when you didn't empathize with my troubles, and went ahead with your comments of indifference against them.
I kindly ask you back to be civil and friendly.
Please let's keep it civil and friendly.
it was just a simple debate and normal conversation between 2 people with Different views and all i did was to provide technical reasons against it. it's ok to tell the both sides of the story.
I didn't know I'm not supposed to express my views. must be a new forum rule that i missed hm.Your posts have been full of hate, in my opinion. Thank you for ruining this place for me. Best wishes for your life, despite this discourse we had has been unpleasant to me.
Edit: Added the parts that are in italics. Sorry for being brief previously.
