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How soon is Edge expected to switch to Chromium 74?
NicolSD Hmm. It appears the bug fix in Chrome didn't make its way into Edge then (which lead to my incorrect assumption that Edge was using a different number than the Chromium base versions). I'll submit a bug report for Edge. Thank you for your answer.
What's the bug?
Having never before used F6 to select the address bar (I'm an Alt-D IE dinosaur), I tried it out in Canary. As far as I can see, the first press selects the tab, making it easy to select different tabs and their (sometimes hard to see) Close 'X.' A subsequent press selected the address bar.
Noel Burgess F6 (like Alt-D I believe) has been a universal shortcut to select the address bar with one press since as long as I can remember (Windows XP). It had the same function on IE, old Edge, Chrome, and Firefox on Windows and Linux. Chrome 72 changed the behaviour to select the tabs first (like you describe current Edge Insider's behaviour), but the Chromium team agreed that the address bar should be first and changed the behaviour in Chrome 74.
In theory, I could switch to using Alt-D or pressing F6 twice, but it's hard to change a keyboard shortcut that I've been using daily for about 15 years.
joel0m wrote:
Noel Burgess F6 (like Alt-D I believe) has been a universal shortcut to select the address bar with one press since as long as I can remember ...
There we have it, I suppose. I've always used Alt-D, which I think goes back to the earliest days of IE before all these usurpers were invented. I can't really regard a change in behaviour from some other browser one might be used to as a bug.
I suppose what we really need is a comprehensive list of currently-enabled keyboard shortcuts for this brilliant new browser: again ... Elliot Kirk or Eric_Lawrence ?
