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I am generally pretty hesitant to change browsers, but I actually really like the feel of this. It's super clean and the keyboard shortcuts are the same as what

I am generally pretty hesitant to change browsers, but I actually really like the feel of this. It's super clean and the keyboard shortcuts are the same as what I'm used to so it seems like it should be an easy switch. Definitely something worth looking at. I'll probably try this out over the next few weeks. My only gripe so far is that when I click command+w, I want it to default to closing the window when I am on the blank search page (i.e. where the browser goes by default when you open up a new window), but it only seems to close the window if you have a page loaded. EDIT: This isn't a big deal. You can close the window in that case with command+shift+w, but the behavior feels inconsistent to me (that the window closes with just command+w when a page is loaded, but otherwise you need shift).

dgrealy 10y ago
One thing that bites me occasionally with the current browsers is when I'm closing a lot of tabs with cmd-w but go too far and accidentally close the last one and loose the window. Windows close with cmd shift w so this behavior makes sense to me. I like your attention to those shortcuts though I think we have similar standards:)
- makecheck 10y ago
  In a few apps on the Mac I have made good use of the Keyboard Shortcuts part of System Preferences to prevent this. If destructive behavior is a bit too "easy" in an app, I remap the command to something complex. I think my Quit in Firefox for instance is now command-shift-control-Q or something.
- ek750 10y ago
  The three browsers I use have command shortcuts that undo the accidental window closures. Though I have to wonder how much resources are taken by the undo feature.
  - sleepychu 10y ago
    > accidental window closures Really? Not just tabs. The danger is you have 5 tabs open, you only want one of them but you accidentally close all of them, now you've lost the window with the tab you wanted.
    - matt_kantor 10y ago
      I'm not ek750, but this is true for both of the browsers I use regularly. In Chrome on OS X, Cmd+Shift+T reopens the last-closed tab, whether it was in a different/closed window or the one that is currently focused. In Firefox on Linux, Ctrl+Shift+T restores the last-closed tab in the currently focused window, and Ctrl+Shift+N restores the last-closed window. I have both of these browsers configured to save my sessions and start from where I left off when I quit the application entirely. Both of them persist my closed tab/window history between sessions as well, so I can for example close my way out of 15 tabs across 2 windows, then reboot my laptop, then when I start my browser it will reopen whatever tabs/windows I didn't explicitly close and if I want to restore the ones I closed before the reboot I can use the restore shortcut(s) to get them back.
- ryanSrich 10y ago
  Command shift T will bring back a window that has been closed (at least of Mac, I'm sure there's some macro on Windows).
  - soylentcola 10y ago
    It's CTRL-SHIFT-T on Windows but same idea.

dgrealy 10y ago

One thing that bites me occasionally with the current browsers is when I'm closing a lot of tabs with cmd-w but go too far and accidentally close the last one and loose the window. Windows close with cmd shift w so this behavior makes sense to me. I like your attention to those shortcuts though I think we have similar standards:)

makecheck 10y ago
In a few apps on the Mac I have made good use of the Keyboard Shortcuts part of System Preferences to prevent this. If destructive behavior is a bit too "easy" in an app, I remap the command to something complex. I think my Quit in Firefox for instance is now command-shift-control-Q or something.
ek750 10y ago
The three browsers I use have command shortcuts that undo the accidental window closures. Though I have to wonder how much resources are taken by the undo feature.
- sleepychu 10y ago
  > accidental window closures Really? Not just tabs. The danger is you have 5 tabs open, you only want one of them but you accidentally close all of them, now you've lost the window with the tab you wanted.
  - matt_kantor 10y ago
    I'm not ek750, but this is true for both of the browsers I use regularly. In Chrome on OS X, Cmd+Shift+T reopens the last-closed tab, whether it was in a different/closed window or the one that is currently focused. In Firefox on Linux, Ctrl+Shift+T restores the last-closed tab in the currently focused window, and Ctrl+Shift+N restores the last-closed window. I have both of these browsers configured to save my sessions and start from where I left off when I quit the application entirely. Both of them persist my closed tab/window history between sessions as well, so I can for example close my way out of 15 tabs across 2 windows, then reboot my laptop, then when I start my browser it will reopen whatever tabs/windows I didn't explicitly close and if I want to restore the ones I closed before the reboot I can use the restore shortcut(s) to get them back.
ryanSrich 10y ago
Command shift T will bring back a window that has been closed (at least of Mac, I'm sure there's some macro on Windows).
- soylentcola 10y ago
  It's CTRL-SHIFT-T on Windows but same idea.