{"id":298090,"date":"2019-03-04T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=298090"},"modified":"2019-03-04T08:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:09:50","slug":"google-restores-chromes-f6-shortcut-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/298090-google-restores-chromes-f6-shortcut-functionality.html","title":{"rendered":"Google restores Chrome&#8217;s F6 shortcut functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is re-implementing the F6 shortcut that it removed in Chrome 72, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/google-finally-fixes-one-of-the-biggest-annoyances-in-chrome-browser-525149.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Softpedia News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, users had been able to press F6 to automatically switch focus to the URL bar of the browser &#8211; letting users type a new URL.<\/p>\n<p>However, from Chrome 72, pressing F6 first places the focus onto the tab bar, meaning users must press F6 a second time before they can type a new URL.<\/p>\n<p>While this may appear to be a minor issue, many users enjoyed the shortcut and were disappointed when it was removed.<\/p>\n<p>The change has been implemented in the latest version of Chrome Canary, but it remains unknown as to when Google will implement it in Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>Google Chrome version 73 is expected to launch on 12 March.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/298074-us-gamers-are-drawn-to-and-threatened-by-china.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">US gamers are drawn to and threatened by China<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is re-implementing the F6 shortcut that it removed in Chrome 72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[52361,1137,56968],"class_list":["post-298090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-chrome-canary","tag-google-chrome","tag-shortcuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298104,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298090\/revisions\/298104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}