What stupid things do you do by reflex?

[KingGheedora]

I have a couple examples:

1. Whenever i want to google something I usually do Ctrl+t for a new tab, and then type in google.com. Sometimes I click the "home" button on firefox which takes me to google, but i still type "google.com" into the search field by accident.

2. Similar to above, i sometimes open up google and start typing "select * from ... " before realizing what I'm doing.

 

[Ika]

Click the Home button to get a new tab. I use two homepages (slickdeals and forums.anandtech.com), so when I click home, I get two tabs from the original tab.

 

[MovingTarget]

nef?

For one, I recently made a mistake by saying ctrl-c instead of xerox...

 

[Kyle]

I don't use the tabs in browsers...gotta open a whole new window- completly out of habit and 10+ years of browsing before tabs...
Whenever I try to force myself to use the tabs, I always close the whole damn thing and lose all the other pages I was looking at- so annoying.

*edit*
and although I've tried all the others, I always end up going back to IE

 

[Jeff7]

I constantly open a new tab by accidentally clicking the slim gray area above and below the tabs on the tab bar in Firefox. Somehow I manage to miss the large tab and hit the gray region twice. Bam, new empty tab opens up. Quite annoying.

Originally posted by: Kyle
I don't use the tabs in browsers...gotta open a whole new window- completly out of habit and 10+ years of browsing before tabs...
Whenever I try to force myself to use the tabs, I always close the whole damn thing and lose all the other pages I was looking at- so annoying.

*edit*
and although I've tried all the others, I always end up going back to IE

Your browser (IE, Firefox, and probably others) should warn you if you try to close a window that will take out more than one tab with it.



Real life stupid reflex: If something is thrown at me, or has otherwise been propelled in my direction, I almost always move directly into its path, rather than away from it.

Yeah, I really sucked at dodgeball in school.

 

[Kyle]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
I constantly open a new tab by accidentally clicking the slim gray area above and below the tabs on the tab bar in Firefox. Somehow I manage to miss the large tab and hit the gray region twice. Bam, new empty tab opens up. Quite annoying.

Originally posted by: Kyle
I don't use the tabs in browsers...gotta open a whole new window- completly out of habit and 10+ years of browsing before tabs...
Whenever I try to force myself to use the tabs, I always close the whole damn thing and lose all the other pages I was looking at- so annoying.

*edit*
and although I've tried all the others, I always end up going back to IE

Your browser (IE, Firefox, and probably others) should warn you if you try to close a window that will take out more than one tab with it.



Real life stupid reflex: If something is thrown at me, or has otherwise been propelled in my direction, I almost always move directly into its path, rather than away from it.

Yeah, I really sucked at dodgeball in school.

lol, I know it should- my GF checked the box to not warn any more and I've been too lazy/content w/ multiple windows to turn it back on.
Really, even when the warning was stopping me from closing the window, it was still annoying me.