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Thank God. This feature has been the bane of my Google existence. I often want to hit backspace to go back a page, but because their search bar steals my focu
by EpicEng 9y ago
Thank God.
This feature has been the bane of my Google existence. I often want to hit backspace to go back a page, but because their search bar steals my focus, I instead remove a letter or two and perform a search again.
I have never, not once, found this feature to be useful. Who doesn't type faster than they can read a page of results?
- arkbyte 9y agoRemoval of instant shouldn't change the behavior of the search bar's focusing. I haven't noticed what your'e talking about, though.
- bcoates 9y agoThey have appeared to have implemented disabling instant search by simply reverting all post-instant search antifeatures: No instant search No steal focus on result page (and thus, no breaking backspace) No overriding arrow key scroll into weird blue-arrow modal UI Basically 2010 era google, all at one stroke. The result quality is still kind of meh though.
- EpicEng 9y ago@bcoates claims that it will. I assumed it would because the whole 'steal your focus' thing was implemented at the same time iirc.