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> In virtually all browsers, pressing Escape while a webpage is loading stops the loading process. Wow, you learn something new every day! Kinda weird that we
by adamrezich 2y ago
> In virtually all browsers, pressing Escape while a webpage is loading stops the loading process.
Wow, you learn something new every day!
Kinda weird that we got “Backspace to go back” out of web browsers some time ago yet this still exists, though.
- int_19h 2y agoBackspace was overloaded whenever text input fields on the page were involved, so accidentally pressing that to mean something else entirely and losing data as the result was too common to not address. Escape OTOH was never used for anything else in browsers, as far as I remember.