A few weeks ago, I mentioned two arguments against preferences. Today I ran into a great tip to alleviate accidental shortcut activation under Mac OS X.
The problem occurs in Apple’s browser, Safari. There is a shortcut, Cmd-K, that toggles pop-up blocking. I have found myself disabling pop-ups without even knowing it. OS X (Tiger, at least) has a feature to alter the shortcut to any menu-listed command in any application. It’s not often I will use this tucked away feature, but I’m happy to have it.
I chose a combination I’ll probably never use. The reason I did this is I think this sort of option should never have been a toggle. Whenever I’m activating or deactivating popups, I should know the current state. There is no visual way, outside of the menu, to see whether popups are being blocked, so it’s best to force myself to see the current setting before I go a’togglin’.
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