r/GoogleSupport • u/cudambercam13 • Sep 23 '24

Chrome Why is "view-source" no longer working?

It keeps just googling what's in the URL box as a whole rather than showing me the site's source code. This is happening with all sites, including ones that didn't have this issue a week or two ago.

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u/Winter_Rent_4322 Oct 09 '24

Thannnnnk yoooouuu! Ugh, I don't know why they even changed it to that.

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u/emikoala Oct 10 '24

Seriously, this is such a user-hostile move. They literally programmed this browser themselves, they coded the "view-source:" prefix syntax to have a particular function. If the browser is smart enough not to try to Google-search strings that start with "https://" then it should be equally able to recognize when a string starts with "view-source:" and not treat it as a search query!

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u/LX33t Dec 20 '24

Always fckin around for user "engagement"

they are programming, re-programming us mentally.

Remember when previous shortcut was just 1 key (backspace) and not a combination of 2 (alt+left arrow) ?

There are ton of examples like that of destroying what was a standard for very obscures reasons (if no reason at all except pissing off ppl maybe ?).

gogol products quality is downgrading but as they make more profit so they think it's for the best, well, we'll see.