Now that GitHub CoPilot has a full chat interface in VSCode, just for fun I asked it to "write a GreaseMonkey script to navigate up a level of a URL when the user hits ALT+UP".
I found a couple sketchy extensions to restore this ancient browser behavior, but I'm extremely picky about what extensions I install nowadays given the countless security horror stories.
So I gave it a go, not expecting much and it... did a decent job?!
Well, I mean, it needed about 5 minutes of tweaking and testing but it got about 75% of the work done.
Go find a GreaseMonkey extension (or any of the clones) for your browser, stick this in, and off you go.
This has only been tested with Firefox.
Literally pressing ALT+UP on any page will navigate you up a level.
For example:
https://example.com/foo/bar/bazhttps://example.com/foo/barhttps://example.com/foohttps://example.com
Worth noting that many pages will redirect you if you hit a URL they don't like, so it will look like the page is just refreshing. Not much I can do about that. (Though I have some ideas...)
