Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???
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Also sprach Bob Proulx (Sun 09 Mar 02003 at 01:09:16PM -0700):
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > For some insane reason, I've been trying various combinations of Ctrl-
> > > and Alt- and Home and End ;>
> >
> > Well, I think I agree with you. I'd have never thought to try only
> > <Home> & <End>. "Everywhere else", the standard keystrokes are
> > <ctrl>-<home> & <ctrl>-<end>.
>
> Being a long term unix user I have always used [home] and [end] for
> top and bottom of file. (On terminals that supported those keys.)
> But with some recent update I find that those keys take me to
> beginning of line and end of line, not the top of file and bottom of
> file. What a nasty change! Why break all of us old farts?
>
> Doing more research revealed that MS-Word used [home] for beginning of
> line and [end] for end of line. Who would have thunk it? Apparently
> someone changed the behavior to be more similar to MS-Word behavior.
> Chalk up another win for the ms folks. The traditional unix bahavior
> has always been the other way around.
>
> Therefore I think the answer is that traditional unix behavior has
> been replaced with contemporary ms behavior many places. Mozilla has
> been around for a long time and must be using the "normal unix"
> behavior for those keys and not the "normal ms" behavior.
Odd thing to me is, mozilla changes its behaviour by platform. Both
netscrape and mozilla -- under windoze -- require C-home and C-end to
goto page extremes.
Konqueror uses A-home and A-end; and, per this thread, I find that it
also allows plain home and end.
So, simpleton that I often am, I over complicated the whole deal and my
brain insisted that it had to be a combination key pair, instead of the
simple single keys . . .
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