Reasons I hate Chromium products #1 - ♾️: I am a double-spacer after periods (yes, I am that old). It's habit and I can't stop myself. Chromium-based projects (like the shiny new Arc browser) decide that you really hit a space and a return after you double-space after a period. With a bizarre caveat.
This only happens if the double-space happens at the end of the text box you're typing in. Double-spaces anywhere else are fine. Note that Firefox DOES NOT DO THIS. It's only Chrome, Opera, Arc, etc., that are based on the Chromium core.
What a weird thing for it to force?????
loyalwolf: It's done it for years.
Actually probably over a decade at this point.
That's lame tbh
I'd bet that it doesn't affect 9/10 people, but for those of us who were taught the two-space rule and stick to it, it gets really annoying always having to keep an eye out for where your sentence will end and then having to adjust your text box.
I mean as far as I know double-space is still standard in, like, academic papers right? IDK. I've been out of college for...weird... 10yrs now lolol (somehow that feels equally too long, and not long enough)
I'm of the age where computers were (kind of) a thing in homes by the time I was old enough to really use one (TRS-80 vs. Commodore 64), but it was still right on the heels of typewriter usage. In fact, I remember the time when my grandfather was still using his in his day-to-day work.
loyalwolf: Dude, my niece is an official teenager in high school. My nephew is almost there.
Hey, how long have you know me, yo
MY KID starts high school in August
I'm maybing having a minor crisis about it LOL
I'm that late 80s baby who grew up in the Windows 95 and on era of computers 
loyalwolf: Early 80s. '81, to be specific.
My first Windows computer was 3.11.
Okay, technically? It was 3.11 with this put over it as the 'Multimedia computer' overlay. 
I DO remember a funky lil computer thing of a kind my dad had I played on a lot... I have no idea now what it "really" was? it was almost more like... uhhh just a type writer with a screen? and i think it miiiight have had some printer-y thing attached/built in?
....oh wow. I just found the book that started me learning how to program.
IT CAME WITH THE COMPUTER.
the main thing I remember is writing lil stories on it. black screen, orange text.
haaa amazingggg
loyalwolf: That might have been a Commodore or a Tandy.
maybeee. I really don't know. I loved it as a kid tho LOL
My first Tandy was just BASIC and it attached to a TV screen.
knowing my dad, he probably still has it sitting around his house somewhere
I used it years later in high school to actually watch TV.
amazing. love that haaaa
okay googling a bit-- it was kind of like this!!
but for whatever reason, the text was ORANGE lmfao
but for whatever reason, the text was ORANGE lmfao
it was halloween all the time on that thing
XD
There were different models of the Trash-80. The one I had was literally just this: 
Attached to a TV screen.
omg fjdklfjd
the history of computers is wiiiiild, man
and how fast it changed. and still is changing. (I read somewhere before that like... Millenials are so crammed full of nostalgia more so than most generations b/c of how fast things have happened, and I feel like that tracks tbh)
That's the one my grandfather had (recommended by my uncle). And he had it attached to a rather large TV.
chrome forced me to get out of the double space but i was a hardcore double spacer
tessituras: I've tried to stop. I inevitably slide back to Firefox when it gets too annoying.
I'm glad I'm not the only one - I've done polls and had people in my age group and geographical area saying double-space after a period is not a thing/never was a thing
(or at least: was never how they were taught, and I 100% was, Mavis Beacon & Typer Shark both)
and I was also annoyed by that 'feature' in chrome, I would re-size my text boxes before I posted anything just to make sure, and sometimes still missed them
I couldn't tell you if I learned it in typing class or if it was something my grandfather taught me.
DryadGurrl: uh-uh-uh, are you fingers on the HoMe KeYs lives in my brain, rent free
I just remember that I sucked at 'rhythm typing' where it had you typing in the beat of a song, but I was really good at the like, FPS one with the words on targets
(the rhythm one was bad because it had words split on different beats/parts of the song and that's just not how my brain works)
My typing story is that I had no concept beyond hunt and peck until high school. And then I had an ACTUAL typing class and was taught about the home keys. And the reason I actually learned? I was the only person in class that didn't have letters on the keyboard on the computer I was assigned to.
fjdksljfd omg why were there no letters on the keyboard tho!!
loyalwolf: I have no idea. I just remember having to look at the keyboard that highlighted the home row on the wall until eventually it just became muscle memory.
Err. Big keyboard signage on the wall.
makes sense. i started typing when i was 6, my grandmother was like very adamant about it b/c she was like "this is going to be a very important skill for you later."