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Sure, and I always use "/" in Firefox. But we're talking about for the benefit of people using Word and other like editors.


"/" is also not a single key on all keyboard configurations. On a swedish keyboard it's shift+7, hardly any easier than ctrl+f.


There are fewer people in all of Sweeden than the city in which I currently live. I don't think theirs is the keyboard the world should be optimising for.


There are fewer people in all of the US than the rest of the world. I don't think theirs is the keyboard the world should be optimising for.


Check my profile. I'm in Beijing.

Like it or not, the vast majority of the world uses a keyboard layout closer to that of the US than of Sweden.




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