MBA keyboard shortcuts-delete key?

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MBA keyboard shortcuts-delete key?

Ok, I know about the "delete" key on MBA (MacBook Air) in the upper right on keyboard. What I wonder is what to use in the following ex, where the Chrome browser asks for that "other" delete key with combo, to "clear browsing data". I tried the regular "delete" on keyboard in the following *pic with other two keyboard keys and it did not clear data.

(*Re PIC: I'm trying to "insert image" here on MBA by dragging over to this screen and it shows green "+" but don't see any image in here. I tried hitting the "insert image" icon of camera, and it shows a popup of a black screen and "insert here" in the black window, and try dragging over there and it tries to shut down this window and go to another page. I can't do it. Please tell me how to do this too. It must be a Mavericks thing, which I'm having trouble with!)

Description of keyboard shortcut (3 items for "clear browsing data"): shift(up arrow), command(squiggley), and that rectangle that has point on left side and an "x" in the middle (the other delete key on regular keyboard of larger computers)

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 4, 2014 11:28 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 5, 2014 4:13 AM in response to Strgzr

The MBA "delete" key is the same as a backspace key on a Windows keyboard.

To get the function of a Windows keyboard delete key hold down the fn key and then hit the delete key.

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Answer 2

Jeff Shenk

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Mar 5, 2014 5:33 AM in response to Strgzr

By the way, the key you are describing, with the point on the left, (⌫) is the Delete key on the Mac; the other key, forward delete on a Mac, has the point to the right (⌦).

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Strgzr Author

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Mar 5, 2014 7:35 AM in response to Retired Engineer

Nope did not work. This means on MBA I have to hold down 4 keys, and I do it like playing piano, first key, keep down while adding next key, then third until all 4 are held down, but this CHROME browser still does not "Clear browsing data" after trying what you said by holding down fn with the delete key. Do you have CHrome newest and have you tried to use that keyboard shortcut? Well, I can't get it to work, so I must be doing something wrong.😕

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Strgzr Author

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Mar 5, 2014 7:36 AM in response to Jeff Shenk

Thank you for this info. Please tell me how you added that pic here in discusstion.

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Jeff Shenk

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Mar 5, 2014 7:05 PM in response to Strgzr

They aren't pictures; they are just unicode characters that I "typed" into my response with the Character Viewer. You can check a box in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences to Show the Keybaard & Character Viewers in the Menu Bar. That gives you access to thousands of additional characters that can't be typed directly from the keyboard. Of course, you could also just Copy and Paste them from my previous post.

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Strgzr Author

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Mar 12, 2014 1:22 PM in response to Strgzr

Here was combo that didn't work before on Chrome browser----but after running Disk Utility-Repair Permissions, the key combo works. Guess that was prob?

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I also was able to drag this pic over here to show everyone. It did not work before either!

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