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I'm super curious--how often do you actually use the menu and what do you use it for? I ask because I literally can't remember the last time I did in Firefox; e

I'm super curious--how often do you actually use the menu and what do you use it for? I ask because I literally can't remember the last time I did in Firefox; everything's a keyboard shortcut. Fullscreen is F11, inspector is F12, refresh is F5 (even go-to-URL-bar is F6).

airstrike 7y ago
go-to-URL-bar is also Ctrl+L which I tend to favor, for some reason Also I miss typing ".." in the URL bar to go to my home page (I'll admit this was an iexplore quirk, albeit a really convenient one...)
jandrese 7y ago
I pull down the History menu reasonably often. I'm one of the few people who still uses bookmarks too. I found that hitting alt was annoying and I'd forget about the menu and try to find stuff on the Hamburger menu instead and get annoyed.
- eropple 7y ago
  Huh. I use bookmarks a lot, too--but I use them via the omnibar. Type the first few letters and I'll find it from there. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
- JohnFen 7y ago
  Now that you mention it, I also use the history menu pretty frequently. I don't use the bookmark facility in browsers, though, because I run my own bookmark server (so I have access to my bookmarks no matter what computer or browser I'm using).
- Miraste 7y ago
  Maybe you know this already, but Firefox has shortcuts for both of those. History is Ctrl+H and bookmarks is Ctrl+B. Ctrl+Shift+H and Ctrl+Shift+B to get them in a separate window.
  - jandrese 7y ago
    The Ctrl-H history opens up the annoying sidebar though, and then you have to click to expand. It's not as ergonomic as the menu. The Bookmarks have the same problem.
- frosted-flakes 7y ago
  Just put the History menu dropdown in the toolbar beside the hamburger menu.
JohnFen 7y ago
> I'm super curious--how often do you actually use the menu and what do you use it for? I use the menu really frequently -- for pretty much anything that isn't a toolbar button. I tend not to use keyboard shortcuts generally, but particularly if I'm just reading a website -- in that situation, my hands are on the mouse, not the keyboard, and moving to the keyboard to type a shortcut is more inconvenient than just being able to use two clicks on a menu.

airstrike 7y ago

go-to-URL-bar is also Ctrl+L which I tend to favor, for some reason Also I miss typing ".." in the URL bar to go to my home page (I'll admit this was an iexplore quirk, albeit a really convenient one...)

jandrese 7y ago

I pull down the History menu reasonably often. I'm one of the few people who still uses bookmarks too. I found that hitting alt was annoying and I'd forget about the menu and try to find stuff on the Hamburger menu instead and get annoyed.

eropple 7y ago
Huh. I use bookmarks a lot, too--but I use them via the omnibar. Type the first few letters and I'll find it from there. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
JohnFen 7y ago
Now that you mention it, I also use the history menu pretty frequently. I don't use the bookmark facility in browsers, though, because I run my own bookmark server (so I have access to my bookmarks no matter what computer or browser I'm using).
Miraste 7y ago
Maybe you know this already, but Firefox has shortcuts for both of those. History is Ctrl+H and bookmarks is Ctrl+B. Ctrl+Shift+H and Ctrl+Shift+B to get them in a separate window.
- jandrese 7y ago
  The Ctrl-H history opens up the annoying sidebar though, and then you have to click to expand. It's not as ergonomic as the menu. The Bookmarks have the same problem.
frosted-flakes 7y ago
Just put the History menu dropdown in the toolbar beside the hamburger menu.

JohnFen 7y ago

> I'm super curious--how often do you actually use the menu and what do you use it for? I use the menu really frequently -- for pretty much anything that isn't a toolbar button. I tend not to use keyboard shortcuts generally, but particularly if I'm just reading a website -- in that situation, my hands are on the mouse, not the keyboard, and moving to the keyboard to type a shortcut is more inconvenient than just being able to use two clicks on a menu.