I keep closing my browser tabs by accident with Ctrl + W (whiskers.bim.boats)

submitted 1 year ago by lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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While editing in an input field, I'm so used to going for Ctrl+W instead of Ctrl+Backspace because it's more ergonomic. But almost all modern browsers use Ctrl + W to close tabs. Since when was this a convention? I'd love to go back in time and git revert this change. Incredibly frustrating.

TL;DR: old man yelling at clouds.

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[-] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I am not entirely sure, but I think it depends on the page if it warns if text is in an input and you want to leave the page.

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