Add Numbered Accelerators to Closed Tabs List
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Snapshot 1373.4 added numbers to the first 9 items in the Window menu to access them easily with keyboard.
The same thing should be added to the Closed Tabs list.
I open the Closed Tabs list with a keyboard shortcut that I assigned to it. After that, I have to navigate to the item with arrow keys. Numbers would be helpful here, just as the Window menu.
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@debiedowner Actually, you can navigate to the items using the first letter of the Page Title. (Be careful though: access key C will clear the list.
Numbered items would help, but for only the first nine or ten items.
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@Pesala Often times, I know that I want to open the second or third last closed tab, e.g. when I closed a few times successively. On Firefox, I press the shortcut for History -> Recently Closed Tabs, and then the number 2 or 3 or 4, without needing to examine the menu. Indeed, on Vivaldi first letters work as access keys, but it has a few disadvantages compared to numbers like in Firefox:
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I need to look at the menu, find the 2nd or 3rd or 4th line, read the first letter and then move my finger to that key; on Firefox, I already know the shortcut, my finger immediately reaches there automatically after the Recently Closed Tabs shortcut.
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It is not consistent: after finding pressing the key corresponding to the first letter, I may or may not need to press the enter key, depending on whether more than one items start with the same letter, or I may or may not need to press the letter again, so one more thing for me to watch for and react accordingly, unlike Firefox.
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Like you said, C clears the list; I cleared the recently closed tabs many times because the first letter of the item was C so I just pressed it without thinking. So I not only fail to reopen the tab I want, but lose the list permanently. It is hard to remember to press the first letter, except when it is C.
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The first letter may not be on my keyboard or may not even be a letter
For these reasons I have taken up navigating with arrow keys; it is consistent and always works in the same way without extra cognitive load. It is just a bit more time consuming to press down arrow three times and then Enter, instead of just pressing 3.
I imagine someone at Vivaldi is aware of these disadvantages, because they added numbers to the Window menu in the snapshot I linked, instead of having access keys be the first letters. Closed Tabs menu is almost identical, so I was hoping they were going to add it to there as well in the next snapshot, for consistency if nothing else, but unfortunately it still has not happened.
(Indeed, numbers would not help after 10th item, but it is relatively rare for me to need those, and at that point I would need to examine the list to find what I want anyway.)
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This is actually implemented in 3.4!
I didn't see it in the changelog, so I was very pleasantly surprised to notice it today. I guess they finally updated it while making it customizable for this version.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Add Numbered Accelerators to Closed Tabs List:
The rest of numbering is missing at this time in my internal 3.5. I see only 1-9.
The same is true for the items in the Window menu and the Panel context menu, and presumably intentional. Numbers aren't useful as accelerators (keyboard shortcuts) after 9, and may even be counterproductive for that purpose.
Only a 10th one might be useful, with an access key of 0, but it doesn't matter much.
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This now exists. Marking as done.