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(More Chrome, so skip if you are bored)
I'm using the keyboard very intensively while I'm working. First of all - I'm old and used to it. It also quicker than switching hands between keyboard and mouse and back again...
Now Chrome decided to switch from [Backspace] to [ALT]+[Left Arrow] and I already broke the [Backspace] on my keyboard...
Until now it was "The big brother is watching you", now it is "The big brother is deciding for you"...
Had I told something about the evil deeds today already?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Backspace still works for me ...
Alt + left arrow also works so I might not have the latest greatest where they removed backspace?
Version: 51.0.2704.103 m
But does seem to be doing an update now so ...
I'll update if that update makes a difference
Edit: yep it's gone
Version 52.0.2743.116 m now and no more backspace, some stupid popup thingy comes to tell me to use alt + left arrow
Pfff
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: ome stupid popup thingy comes to tell me to use alt + left arrow
Interesting. I didn't see any popup.
/ravi
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There's a strategy called voting with your feet: you get up and go to where things are more to your liking. There are other browsers available at the very reasonable price of free.
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And I'm writing this on FF 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Why not Firefox? I do not touch Chrome.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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For years Chrome was way better than FF. Now FF did a great comeback and it is not more true, but I got to used to Chrome...No more...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It never happened to me...that form thing...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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This.
I can't count the number of times I've tried to delete text somewhere on a form, and some genius decided to put real-time validation javascript on the page, buggered it up, and the text-box loses focus in favor of some control that doesn't accept backspace. Backspace gets bubbled up to the browser and boom, work lost.
Of course, removing it and remapping the shortcut to something else is not the way to fix the issue. It should been added as a configuration option, allowing any key or key combination to be bound to the shortcut, making everyone happy. Software that mandates the use of specific keys for specific actions with no option to change it are the worst kinds of software...
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He knows all and what is good for you... 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Now Chrome decided to switch from [Backspace] to [ALT]+[Left Arrow]
They didn't switch. Alt-L/R arrow has always been supported. But it seems they dropped Backspace in the latest update. 
/ravi
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You can get Backspace back by installing this[^] extension.
/ravi
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I've another extension - easier to install and more reliable h
ttps: . I found it eliminates a number of other problems with Chrome.
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/ravi
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Just use one of your extra arm, like my friend[^]! 
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A lesson from the almighty Google...
So today I gone to see some short movie I got (the link) via email and first time for years maybe I saw an advert running before the movie...
Went to check the add-blocker and found it disabled, so opened the settings page to re-enable, just to find it - enabled...
After some more checks I found that it is disabled only for YouTube, the only reason I installed it for the first place...
"Don't be evil." - only a pain in the ass...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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And Still you use chrome!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They will force you to see their ads, one way or the other. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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So Google is not the good guy. At least Wikipedia does not have ads, which among other things slows your computer to a crawl.
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All I can say is I have been running adblock plus since the dim times. I have never once seen an ad on YouTube. Never.
I would like to hear more as to why it failed for you.
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I remember reading some time ago about this being the case with Chrome, and the solution was to remove the YouTube app from Chrome. (the URL of the apps page is chrome://apps by the way)
Hope this helps.
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As a new coder who has not worked professionally yet, I am often inspired to work on my own projects - the main reason I learned to code ultimately was to develop my own projects and ideas. However, a lot of my ideas are "large" in nature. For example, I have an awesome app/website idea that will get business directory/location info from Google API, and then allow business owners and users to enter certain data about the business that will be available via my product's database. So the project will require a database, data modeling, my own API as well as usage of Google APIs, an architecture perhaps like MVC, and a whole lot more. Basically, it'll be a full-fledged project, that's for sure.
But these are my ideas... These are the things I care about and am willing to work on. For example, I spent a few days testing out the Google JavaScript API and realized it would definitely work for my project. The thing is, as someone who is new, I have this inherent fear that I will not "properly" make my application. So, in other words, because this will be my first "real" (I mean unguided and not something trivially simple) application, what if I don't do the architecture right? What if I overlook things that a seasoned programmer would say "holy cow why did you do it like that when you could have saved x amount of hours and it would be much better doing it like this?" One thing I learned about programming is theres a zillion ways to do things an that always makes me wonder "am I doing this the right/best way?"
It's almost like how if your first manual car was a Porsche, you wouldn't want to learn how to drive stick on a nice car like that lol. Well, I'm not sure I want to have my first real-world experience screwing up one of the reasons I learned to code. But unfortunately, because of that fear, then I don't create my own stuff that I maybe should.
Is this realistic or is coding not like that and should I just go for it?
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The thing about driving a Porsche is that they are expensive machines and other people won't readily allow a new inexperienced driver to try one out. This is not the case with software - it is very low cost to tear down and repair if you get it wrong and people are very very generous to help or give you code to play with.
So - go for it.
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