Other computer users
Watching other people use the internet has me wanting to beat them to death with their keyboards, especially when they do any of the following:

Googling a URL
Googling for a favourite website instead of starting to type a key word in the address bar.
Hovering the mouse over a link while considering whether or not to click it, instead of just clicking and then going back if it wasn't what they wanted. Then double-clicking it.
Carefully placing the mouse over the scroll bar and slowly dragging it down instead of using the wheel.
Using spaces instead of tabs.

I even provided my better half with a speed dial to her email account so all she has to do is open a new tab and click, but "it's easier to just Google it."
*twitch*
(lolwhites, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 21:44, 15 replies)

Hovering over a link reveals if the link is what it purports to be
the real link shows at the bottom of the browser. If it's different, consider not clicking it. If it's nothing like, do not click.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 21:51, closed)

Fair point
It's the obviously indecisive, clueless link hoverers that get my goat. I doubt someone who hasn't even mastered the scroll wheel will check the bottom of the browser mid-hover.
(lolwhites, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 21:57, closed)

Very true
My personal ones are things like twatting about with a mouse to click OK when putting a password in, when they could just hit Enter.
Oh, and clickclickclickclickclickinglikeafuckingretard when the PC's being slow, as if that does anything, and then getting annoyed when it catches up by doing all the clicks and fucks everything up.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:05, closed)

Oh God, yes
I forgot about not hitting Enter and making it a mission to use the mouse as much as possible.
(lolwhites, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:10, closed)

Oh fuck, this * twelvety
At our gaff - the sight of someone logging into their Windows desktop

*hunts and pecks username
*grabs mouse
*moves mouse pointer to password box
*clicks
*moves mouse out of way so they can see their typing
*stares fixedly at the keyboard while they hunt and peck their password
*grabs mouse
*clicks 'OK'

- How public sector workers drag out their login process for a full five minutes on a morning.
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:26, closed)

Some people really want other people to love horses

(teebie jeebie, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 13:16, closed)

Re: "Googling for a favourite website instead of starting to type a key word in the address bar."
? In what way would typing a word in the address bar bring up the site?
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:15, closed)

If you're often on Facebook, say
Type "fac" in the address bar and facebook.com will probably come up as a suggestion, which you then click on. This is rather quicker than going to Google and typing "facebook" into the search bar every single time.
(lolwhites, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:22, closed)

Nope. Just brings up my bookmarks.
This most only apply to people who don't auto delete their browsing history on every exit.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:26, closed)

True, but if you're using IE and have google as a home page, it opens with the search box having focus, and it's not just a couple of tabs to focus on the address bar. So then you've got all the time and effort involved in moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. Of course, you will eventually have to do that anyway, but typing the name in the search box gives you at least an extra second or two of masterful inaction.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:32, closed)

I don't use auto guess in the address bar, as the misses uses the computer too. So I have it set not to look at my history nor bookmarks, for slightly obvious reasons.And people that type the whole URL rather than hit control enter to put in the www and com.
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:45, closed)

I've never used IE. It's Linux at home and Firefox on Windows at work.

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 18:53, closed)

If you are using Chrome
the address bar is also the search bar. Works very nicely. Would you like to see my collection of bus photographs. Buses are much more interesting than most people think. I like Leyland Atlanteans.
(ubergeekian, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 19:22, closed)

You are Chris Donald of Viz fame
AICMFP
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 18:56, closed)

This!
I hate it too. If you're going to the trouble of typing the whole address, then why not simply type it in the RIGHT FKUCING place!
(dchurch bah, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 15:10, closed)