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MicrosoftImprovements to history in Microsoft Edge
MicrosoftHey everyone! This is William from the Microsoft Edge team. We know some of you really like using Ctrl+H to open the full page, so we've added a new flag under edge://flags to let you choose whether Ctrl+H opens the new history menu or the full page. This feature is now available in today's Canary build. Look for #edge-history-accelerator-override.
Along those lines, today's Canary also lets you open the full page by clicking on the Favorites/History/Downloads header in the dropdown menu or the pane, saving you a few clicks. See attached for a screenshot.
Please keep the feedback coming! We really appreciate it.
MicrosoftHello again! As many of you know, we recently made it easier to access the full page for favorites, history, and downloads by clicking on the name of the feature in header of the dropdown menu/pane. We also added a new flag to set Ctrl+H to open the history page.
Starting with today's Canary build (91.0.851.0), we've added a few additional ways to quickly get to the full page:
- Ctrl+click on the favorites/history/downloads button in the toolbar or More Menu
- Click with the mouse scroll wheel on the favorites/history/downloads button in the toolbar
- Right-click and select "Open <content> page" on the favorites/history/downloads button in the toolbar or More Menu
These are in addition to the existing entry point in the "..." menu of the dropdown menu/pane, as well as typing "edge://<content>" in the address bar.
We hope these changes will make it even easier for you to get to the content you care about. Please keep the feedback coming!
So many mouse ways to access -- CTRL + J still opens the full Downloads page, but CTRL+H only opens the History menu and CTRL+SHIFT+O only opens the Favorites menu.
My end users are visually impaired or blind and use screen readers (JAWS) or magnifiers (MAGic and ZoomText). Keyboard shortcuts are essential! Perhaps y'all could have CTRL+H = History menu and CTRL+SHIFT+H = history TAB? Since CTRL+O is taken by Open, CTRL+SHIFT+O could be the menu Tab again, and ALT+CTRL+O could be the favorites menu?
While I'm wishing, I'd love a consistent shortcut for the "..." (more options) button. In Edge, ALT+F opens the Settings and More tab, but when there are other items with a "..." button in different screens of Edge (also in Teams), it can be difficult to TAB to it. perhaps CTRL+COLON could consistently toggle between any "..." buttons?
- Thank you, now there are So many ways to access full page for each of them.
