When I start entering a URL that exists in my browsing history, then it nicely pops up in the list. It is however missing a trailing slash at the end. This makes it a bit more cumbersome to manually enter long URL, because the trailing slash needs to be added manually each time.
Firefox does this. Here is an example:
If I want to go to the following page:
https://domain.com/posts/categories/feature-requests/
In Firefox I will need to approx. do the following typing:
- “dom” => pops up
domain.com/ - end key => jumps to the end of the URL
- “p” => puts “posts/” at the end of the URL, so we’re at
domain.com/posts/ - end key => jumps to the end of the URL
- “c” => puts “categories/” at the end, so we’re at
domain.com/posts/categories/ - end key => jumps to the end of the URL
- “f” => puts “feature-requests/” at the end, so we’re at
domain.com/posts/categories/feature-requests - hit “enter” and page loads.
In Brave a “/” needs to be added at every step, which slows things down. Looks like this:
- “dom” => pops up
domain.com - end key => jumps to the end of the URL
- “/” => to add the trailing slash
- “p” => puts “posts” at the end of the URL, so we’re at
domain.com/posts - end key => jumps to the end of the URL
- “/” => to add the trailing slash
- “c” => puts “categories” at the end, so we’re at
domain.com/posts/categories - end key => jumps to the end of the URL
- “/” => to add the trailing slash
- “f” => puts “feature-requests” at the end, so we’re at
domain.com/posts/categories/feature-requests - hit “enter” and page loads.
This doesn’t seem like much, but when you are doing this only 10 times a day it becomes really annoying. And I’m doing it much more than that.
I’m switching from Firefox and this change is disturbing and slowing down the workflow.