Edge Frustration

Discussion in 'Software' started by Earthling, Aug 3, 2017.

  1. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    Three weeks ago I decided to give Edge a chance and set it as default, taking over from Firefox. I have been very pleasantly surprised and so far have not been tempted to revert. There is one little thing though that, if I can't fix it will probably change that, and that is the right click, or rather the absence of it. In Firefox you can page hop back or forward with a right click and it's probably the one action I used the most. But I can't stop doing it even after three weeks with Edge, and having to mouse over to top left for back or forward is counter intuitive and slows you down. I've looked at the available extensions and only mouse gestures offers anything comparable but I don't find it easy to use due to a hand tremor I have. If anyone knows of or hears of an extension that either fixes this, or enables you to rearrange the bar, please let me know.
     
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  2. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    In Firefox I use Alt+Left Arrow to go back a page and Alt+Right Arrow to go forward. Worth a try in Edge.
     
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  3. EJB

    EJB Corporal

    Right click for me offers 'Select All' or 'Print'.
    My niggle is having Favourites on the right of the screen (no option like IE) and not being able to adjust the width of the list...again as the IE option.
    Apart from all the IE versions have never used another browser.
    Tried the Alt+Left/Right and no response with either!
     
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  4. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    Thank you mdonah, that does work in Edge too. Now need to get out of the habit of right clicking.

    @EJB - maybe ALT left/right is not responding because of some other incomplete browser action, such as an open right click box.
     
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Me too I still love Firefox Nightly but have gotten more use in Edge than I did in IE, just kinda like its clean look and is pretty quick too.
     
  6. GermanOne

    GermanOne Guest

    Since I'm quite active in several programming forums there is one Edge issue that I currently can't live with. That is, copying code out of preformatted sections of a web page causes errors if you try to use it. I reported this issue and it was already fixed by the Microsoft team but still not rolled out.
    https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/11004541/
    Maybe I'll give Edge another chance because besides of that I like it, too ...

    FWIW Microsoft provided a list of keybord shortcuts for apps (including Edge).
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13805/windows-keyboard-shortcuts-in-apps
     
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