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How soon is Edge expected to switch to Chromium 74?
Chrome 74 was released as stable 2 days ago with a bugfix for a feature I use frequently (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=927004). I'd like to know how soon Edge Canary is expe...
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 ?
Yes, this is a bug, still hasn't been fixed. Standard behavior, including keyboard shortcuts, is like other standards. There are a few shortcuts (closing tab/window, navigating between them, etc.) that should be the same and that other browser one might be used to is all other browsers people actually use, the browsers Edge wants to get users away from. It makes sense to have the same behavior there.
- I especially consider it a bug, because the Chromium team that originated this design decision treated it as a bug and reverted it. It seems that Edge forked during the 2 Chromium versions that it was that way.
The lack of support for this age old, universal shortcut is the one thing that prevents me from using Edge as a daily driver.
Just because there are other ways to accomplish the same task, doesn't mean this way should be removed, especially since it doesn't seem to be an intentional decision by the Edge team.
