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Vanity: Is there any way to disable 'Ctrl-W'?
self | 5 Aug 13 | citizen

Posted on 08/05/2013 7:48:33 PM PDT by citizen

I have literally lost hundreds of pages, threads and posts this way.


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I have lost literally hundreds of pages, threads and posts his way :(
1 posted on 08/05/2013 7:48:33 PM PDT by citizen
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To: citizen

Huh


2 posted on 08/05/2013 7:49:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Thanks.

I admit I don’t get this.

Huh?


3 posted on 08/05/2013 7:50:40 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: citizen; Admin Moderator

Oh crap! That is supposed to say “Vanity: Is” Mods, can you fix please?

Posting from my phone is difficult.


4 posted on 08/05/2013 7:51:18 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: citizen

Not that I know of for my main browser...Mac Safari

this is supposed to work on FIrefox browsers

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/66162


5 posted on 08/05/2013 7:51:25 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Chicago Murder Updates..http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/)
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To: cripplecreek

Thread winner!


6 posted on 08/05/2013 7:51:45 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: cripplecreek
I have lost literally hundreds of pages, threads and posts his way

For which we are all deeply grateful.

7 posted on 08/05/2013 7:52:37 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: citizen

aside from removing the Ctrl and W’ keys?


8 posted on 08/05/2013 7:52:51 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: cripplecreek

Have you never hit control-W instead of shift-W? Control-W instantly kills whatever page your have open.


9 posted on 08/05/2013 7:53:33 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: citizen

You have to be a Natural Born Citizen, citizen, and then it’ll work!


10 posted on 08/05/2013 7:54:20 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Hahahah


11 posted on 08/05/2013 7:54:27 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Green card no good, amigo?


12 posted on 08/05/2013 7:56:36 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: citizen

Switch to Compound W. It removes warts faster.


13 posted on 08/05/2013 7:56:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: TADSLOS
I don't know anything about Nity Vals but I'm lichen this post.

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14 posted on 08/05/2013 7:56:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: citizen
Ctrl + Shift + T opens the last-closed tab, you can do this multiple times. (Assuming you're talking Firefox.)
15 posted on 08/05/2013 7:57:21 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: citizen

Now I know why those suckers disappear on me.


16 posted on 08/05/2013 7:57:29 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: citizen
I am still working on why the TV news stations display 100% and I am running 200.
17 posted on 08/05/2013 7:57:29 PM PDT by Domangart
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inkTH can NOT I way of fixing.

But for now notty.


18 posted on 08/05/2013 7:58:53 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL. This thread has legs. I’m calling it a 5,000+ run.


19 posted on 08/05/2013 7:59:28 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: citizen

A few minutes searching around on the ctrl-w question leaves me with the impression that there’s no easy way to disable that key pair.

I have to tell you, I’ve been using Windows and Internet Explorer for almost twenty years, and I never even knew about ctrl-W until reading your post.

On the one hand, it seems like a dangerous shortcut to have put into IE. On the other hand, it’s hard for me to see how you could hit that particular key pair by accident, but everyone’s keyboard habits are different.

When I want to kill one tabbed view without killing them all, I use ctrl-F4, which seems to be the same as ctrl-w.

How do you make this mistake? Do you have a number of browser windows open at the same time, each with a number of tabbed views, decide you want to close one thinking it has focus, hit ctrl-w, and then realize that the tab that had focus is not the one you thought had focus?


20 posted on 08/05/2013 7:59:30 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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