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>it appears when you start typing. This is a shockingly common problem for people. I can tell they feel uncomfortable just typing without a place "where" the
by basch 7y ago
>it appears when you start typing.
This is a shockingly common problem for people. I can tell they feel uncomfortable just typing without a place "where" the typing will go. Many people will click the magnifying glass and then again place the cursor into the search field. Same with google, they will click the search field, then the cursor moves to the address bar, they feel surprise, and then place the cursor in the address bar a second time.
- Neil44 7y agoNot to mention all the times when the index has borked its self and search just returns results from Bing instead.
- EamonnMR 7y agoIn many applications (JIRA, Vim) typing without being in a text input field can cause all kinds of trouble. Heck, in browsers if you type 'backspace' you can end up going back and page and blowing away all of your precious form input. Not to mention the very real possibility that their work, the text they've typed, will be dropped on the floor. We have been trained by these dangers to avoid typing without a text prompt.
- Agenttin 7y agoThis is why Google switched the 'Back' function to Alt+Left Arrow in Chrome. You could be trying to delete something out of a web form and accidentally leave the page.
- branon 7y agoI resisted this change (in Firefox) because I thought it was horribly unintuitive. Oh, how backwards I had gotten it. Alt+Left arrow makes _loads_ more sense than "Backspace, but conditionally, only when not engaged in a text entry field."
- MaulingMonkey 7y agoThe main problem I run into with it is webcomics bind left/right to page navigation, and aren't smart enough to not do it when alt is held.
- cosmodisk 7y agoI absolutely hate the new way! Used to be so much better by just clicking Backspace. Can I have it back,please?
- Narishma 7y agoYou can do that in Firefox.
- Narishma 7y agoThat's when I switched to Firefox. I've been using the backspace key to go to the previous page or directory since the mid-90's and I never accidently left a page when trying to delete stuff.
- ilrwbwrkhv 7y agogood point
- jermaustin1 7y agoI know a computer programmer, well former web developer, who still tries to dabble in programming who "clicks the magnifying glass" to search the start menu. Same with the chrome search bar on a new tab. He also refuses to learn shortcut keys because he never learned to touch type, and refuses to type even 1 character more than he has to, so he has a lot of common things he would type stored on a virtual clipboard that he recalls with ctrl+`, and will paste from that to avoid typing.
- overgard 7y agoIt's also really annoying on a tablet. I can't get an onscreen keyboard without some sort of target.
- basch 7y agoDoesnt the magnifying glass next to start work?
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI think in the current iteration of Windows, you're supposed to get a permanently visible keyboard icon in a taskbar when in tablet mode, clicking which will summon the on-screen keyboard. At least that's how it worked on the two Windows 2-in-1s I worked on over the last year.
- Animats 7y agoThat's a terrible idea. Once people have been trained to do that, attackers can probably get them to type their password somewhere they shouldn't.
- nitwit005 7y agoI will admit still being baffled why Google wants us to type searches into the address bar. When I first saw that behavior, I thought "but what if it's a valid URL?". Sure enough, I've made that mistake several times. I'm sure it's a mess for less tech savvy people trying to do searches on companies that have .com or .net suffixes on their names.
- isostatic 7y agoBecause they want you to use google as your portal to the internet. I change my Firefox copies to have separate boxes, and no search from url bar. I don’t recall offhand as it’s muscle memory, and I’m on a phone, but I think it’s ctrl-k for location and ctrl-l for search.