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Why doesn't Lemmy have a back button?

It's really confusing me why Lemmy doesn't have a back button when you are browsing via the web. Is this something that just got missed or is it meant to be like that?

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

first thing i do on a new browser install is rearrange the toolbar a bit.

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you find having the navigation buttons in the middle? It seems like it would be a bit harder to hit them?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

when i first started doing this years ago in the early versions of firefox, the back button was bigger than the rest.

but i've long since gotten used to it. and i like it a lot better in the middle than way tf over on the left side. it's closer to all the other stuff up there (such as the extension buttons, which i use frequently) and to the scroll bars--which are largely unneeded with scroll wheels or touch these days, but i didn't have a wheely mouse way back when.

the only thing that would take me up to the top left was the menu bar, but i don't use that much anymore with the hamburger menu on the far right, so the menu bar is off (alt brings it back).

re-enabling the separate search box is significant. suggestions (the ones that transmit keystrokes to the search engine) are disabled in the address bar, but not the search box.

the button to bring-up the sidebar is logically placed--above where the sidebar appears.

the bookmark toolbar, which is not visible here because it's set to only show on 'newtab' has the bookmark menu icon on its far left before the bookmarks themselves, and the 'most visited' smart boomkark is re-enabled up there too.

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the explanation! It makes a lot of sense.

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