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Still can't believe the Chrome team decided to overload the enter button as "accept autocomplete" If I type in a url and hit enter you should take me to what I typed, not decide to swap to an autocomplete suggestion that popped up as I was hitting enter.

Still can't believe the Chrome team decided to overload the enter button as "accept autocomplete" If I type in a url and hit enter you should take me to what I typed, not decide to swap to an autocomplete suggestion that popped up as I was hitting enter.

  • DevSpacePrez
    Posted 3 years ago (Source)
    Still can't believe the Chrome team decided to overload the enter button as "accept autocomplete" If I type in a url and hit enter you should take me to what I typed, not decide to swap to an autocomplete suggestion that popped up as I was hitting enter.

    • DevSpacePrez
      Posted 3 years ago (Source)
      There is no way to blindly type something into chrome and go to the website. You must stop after typing and inspect the 'awesome bar' to see if an autocorrection has appeared or not, and if so, you have to press multiple keys to undo it. Just horrible UX.

      • Chadd Nervigg
        Posted 3 years ago (Source)
        @DevSpacePrez Counterpoint: It's the right thing 99% of the time, so is good UX.

        • Chadd Nervigg
          Posted 3 years ago (Source)
          @DevSpacePrez I'd rather have to press 1 additional key (backspace) 1% of the time, than 1 additional key (downarrow or something) 99% of the time.

          • DevSpacePrez
            Posted 3 years ago (Source)
            @Celestalon Problem is for me its the same, but I end up hitting backspace 99% of the time and up arrow 1%. If only this was a toggle in the settings :P

            • DevSpacePrez
              Posted 3 years ago (Source)
              @Celestalon Surprised it works so well for you, it ALWAYS guesses something wrong for me. I'll type in like "hearthstone battlegrounds heroes" and it'll autocorrect to "hearthstone" which is not useful at all!

              • Chadd Nervigg
                Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                @DevSpacePrez Do you just extensively use bookmarks, so you never type anything in that you regularly goto?

                • Chadd Nervigg
                  Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                  @DevSpacePrez Uhhh... Hold up. We must be talking about different things. Because the thing you just said doesn't actually exist. What did you mean?

                  • Chadd Nervigg
                    Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                    @DevSpacePrez (or you've got some really bizarre addon or something that's replacing your address bar functionality)

                  • DevSpacePrez
                    Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                    @Celestalon Chrome does a thing where if you type in a bit of text and hit enter, it forwards it to a search service of your choice (google) But it also tries to autocorrect that search string based on popular search strings. Its insufferable because the suggestions are always wrong.

                    • Chadd Nervigg
                      Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                      @DevSpacePrez Yes, but it only *adds to* what you type, it doesn't change/remove anything you typed. Your example of "hearthstone battlegrounds heroes" getting autocorrected to "hearthstone" doesn't happen.

                      • DevSpacePrez
                        Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                        @Celestalon Definitely 100% happens to me all the time. It may be since I've previously searched for "hearthstone" or something, but it absolutely just chops off half the search string I enter very frequently.

                        • Chadd Nervigg
                          Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                          @DevSpacePrez If that were true, then it would interrupt your typing. How is that possible? We must be talking about different interfaces somehow.

                          • DevSpacePrez
                            Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                            @Celestalon After you push enter? I type "hearthstone battlegrounds heroes" and then press enter, it takes me to google, and searches for "hearthstone". So no, no interruption of typing. It waits for me to press enter, then changes the text to auto-completed text.

                            • Chadd Nervigg
                              Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                              @DevSpacePrez What is shown before you hit enter?

                              • DevSpacePrez
                                Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                                @Celestalon "hearthstone battlegrounds heroes" Then I press enter, it switches to "hearthstone" and googles that.

                                • Chadd Nervigg
                                  Posted 3 years ago (Source)
                                  @DevSpacePrez Screenshot it.
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