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Found out that gnome 3 has some keybinding for dynamically changing screen resolution. I don't know which keybinding that is, but I found it during the mash the keyboard test.

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Yeah, while I was "typing" my response to that question, my screen suddenly went completely black... and then luckily just returned to normal a few seconds later.

... or at least I thought it returned to normal...

Having read your comment, I realize all the text on my display is subtlely squashed and blurry in a way that I didn't notice, but is pretty obvious now that I'm looking for it! ><

Sigh. I hit "Enter" and it submitted the form without letting me finish. Now they will never know if I'm a dog or a cat person...

I suspect the real problem isn't so much hitting "enter" but hitting it directly after the other hand hit "tab". A text field should be able to deal with an enter.

The text fields do handle the enter key correctly. Sometimes you just accidentally press enter and the form lacks required fields and validation.

me too. i retook the survey :)

hit back button, continued.

I hit back and my answers weren't there. I did end up doing the second half of the survey but I was hoping my dataset would be complete.

Did anyone mash about a fifth of the window, select all, copy, then paste until it filled up and then some?

I hit Enter a few times and I didn't like the jaggedness of the box. So I had to clean up my randomness a bit.

Someone (we?) should do an analysis on how many people did that, when the data comes out.

Guilty.

I did something that caused Firefox to restart and lose _all_ of my active tabs. (Got them back via sessionstore.bak, thank goodness.)

"How many tabs do you keep open on your browser" would be an interesting question, to me, to see the results on. I'm often mystified by the stories of people who keep 50+ tabs open. I've never understood why, but I guess now that I'm considering it, I'm guessing such people must base their workflows around tabs.

I tend to have about 50 or so tabs, per /window/ (it's time for a new one when I can't see the faveicon anymore).

I tend to have about 250-300 tabs open in total. Various things I mean to get back to, reference material for projects that I've paused working on, etc.

In general when it costs you nothing to keep a photocopy of a reference on your desk, the desktop becomes nothing but photocopies of reference materials.

Same. Weirdly, it tends to be worse on my phone where I used to have over 250+ on my phone alone.

I'm back up to 89 tabs now, after having recently cleaned it up a bit.

Vertical tab bars :) It doesn't impede my workflow as if I had that many tabs open on a traditional horizontal bar, so they just accumulate.

I have no idea how many tabs I have open, because it's a lot more than my browser is able to display. It's not so much that my workflow is based on tabs, but rather my procrastination flow. I encounter something I want to read, open it in a new tab, but then put off reading it until I forget why I wanted to read it.

The people I know who do it simply use them as bookmarks. No, me neither.

Ctrl-Alt-Plus (and Minus)

I discovered that SOME combination while mashing would close my tab in Chrome. Fortunately, ctrl-shift-t brought back not just the form, but __saved_responses__. What a pleasant surprise. I wonder if that saving is done by the browser, or by the website (local storage?).

Probably Ctrl-W, and the browser does the saving. It also works with back.

HAH! I almost just had coffee spurting out of my nose.

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