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Re: A few quirks with Edge
I've been trying to switch to using ctrl+L in the last few months, but 15 years of using a shortcut is hard to unlearn. When my hands aren't on the keyboard at the time, striking F6 with one hand is easier than pressing 2 keys. I have found, like you say, that ctrl+L is easier most of the time.Re: A few quirks with Edge
Jefronty The F6 bug also existed in Chrome/Chromium around the time when Edge was forked from it. Chrome quickly https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=927004, but Edge is still using the broken behaviour. That's an explanation of why the bug exists. But I don't know whether the Edge team knows about it or have decided to not fix it.Re: Did not expect to see my Chrome bookmarks on install
"it did ask him, but he confirmed it too quickly, because the dialogue looks like some kind of beginner information" I did the same. Edge and IE/Windows have a history of opening a tab or two of tips or welcome info that I don't care about (such as IE's "you should use Edge" page), so I instinctivly close it without looking at it. On the other hand, IE's "Set up Internet Explorer 11" dialogue is fairly intrusive by forcing me to make a decision before I can use the browser (and it takes a few seconds to pop up). Maybe there's a happy medium inbetween those options. I'm no UX designer, but the problem I had with the Edge import/first run is that it's cluttered with too much text, choices, and instructional images. The title doesn't make it clear what the page is about. The option for "start with your data" requires reading the sentence above the diagram to have a context on the vague word "data". Having options and a confirm button seems excessive. Why not just have 2 primary options: "Import from [Chrome/whatever browser]" and "Start from scratch" that only take one click? I do like the "customize import and sync" choice. It's not intrusive and it's not hard to find. Look at the Brave first run wizard. The things I notice about it: 1) the big, bold "import bookmarks and settings" title makes it clear what's happening without reading the detailed text, and 2) I have 2 simple choices: "import" and "next". I can make a decision after reading 6 words. The Edge wizard requires reading 18 words, and at that point "data" still hasn't been defined. It takes another 12 words to know what "data" is. And now for what I think Edge does better. The autodetection of where to import from is nice. It only takes one click, if the detection determined my primary browser correctly (which was true in my case). All other import wizards I've seen force me to choose from a drop down list and usually don't have the correct one selected by default.
