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William Devereux
Microsoft
Nov 17, 2020Improvements to history in Microsoft Edge
Today, we’re excited to share two significant updates to history in Microsoft Edge. We know you have all been eagerly awaiting history sync, and we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve started rolling ...
ikjadoon
Feb 07, 2021Bronze Contributor
Great feature and I think it'll be a success, except for one disruptive omission:
Can the search text box be focused when we press CTRL+H, so we can start typing immediately?
This is muscle memory from every browser: CTRL+H -> start typing. I'm a little worried why some have asked this question, but it's not gotten an official response. For me personally, I know exactly what I'm looking for, but the address bar history is cluttered with way too many other results.
In all other browsers / Chromium Edge Prior This Update:
- Press CTRL+H
- Start typing
- Click the result
Newest Chromium Edge:
- Press CTRL+H
- Click the search icon
- Start typing
- Click the result
If not, could the Edge feedback team push to include a "fallback" to the previous history UI, i.e,. edge://history with CTRL+H, which did focus the search text box?
William Devereux
Microsoft
Feb 08, 2021I have good news for you! As of this morning's Canary update, you can now start typing to immediately search without clicking on the search icon. 🙂