Wezarus wrote:
Currently, exiting the Full Screen mode of Pale Moon is possible only by pressing F11. Since Esc is the universal key for the "exit" function, I think it would be good if it were added as an alternative key. I know I always keep pressing it first and only then realize I have to press F11 again to exit.
^^^I do that every.single.time. I have always wanted this myself. The ESC button is just so much easier to access/reach/get to.
dark_moon wrote:
F11 is in all programs the shortcut to open & close full screen so this is a standard behavior.
While esc means cancel.
And isn't one shortcut not enough?
While all you say is true it still does not dispute the fact that hitting the ESC button is a whole lot easier than trying to find the F11 (without looking). I still cannot hit the F11 without looking away from my screen and down at the keyboard after all of these years; especially when time and again over the years I occasionally replace my keyboards and they each have their own arrangement (spaced out, cramped together, thin keyboard, wide keyboard, split-key keyboard) etc,.
I am an online MMO gamer amongst other things and in games (EQ, EQ2, WoW, DAoC, SWTOR...the list goes on) ESC is the common button to close in-game windows and user interface elements. 17 years of gaming makes a helluva habit to break. Hitting that ESC key is too damn easy and I often have my left-hand middle-finger to the left side of it or hovering over it; so many things besides just gaming uses that ESC key. And it doesn't help that sites such as Youtube and others use the ESC key to exit full screen videos. It only enforces and continues the habit of using the ESC key.
For me, the ESC button would be ideal and is what I always wished browsers and the Windows OS would have used for exiting maximized/full screen windows. It's not that one shortcut isn't enough, it's that for some people, it has now become the WRONG shortcut (F11)!
EDIT: Coincidentally, I came to the forums tonight to post a question in reference to the full screen mode. Being a good soldier, I did a forum-wide search first and I saw this thread. I have been in and out of full screen mode all night tonight working and I grumbled quite a bit each time I had to toggle full-screen on and off because... yeah... I kept trying to exit using the ESC key but had to find that dang F11 instead!
Anyhow, moving on to my own new topic (forum post) now...