Refresh inside of client with F5 instead of entire client

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Slimurgical (Stormy) 22 Oct @ 6:36am

I'd like to refresh the inside of the client, namely the page I've viewing, whether it's the library, a forum or a store page with F5 instead of just rebooting the entire client, Shift-F5 would be best for rebooting the client. Y'know, if the client is going to continue being a chromium web app, as much as that idea makes me want to puke.

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nullable 22 Oct @ 7:09am

I mean, f5 refreshes the page as far as I can see it. I'm not sure what you mean by rebooting the entire client.

At any rate Steam is basically just an embedded web browser, so f5 works just like it should in a browser. You're saying it's doing something different?

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 22 Oct @ 8:31am

F5 and the refresh button do exactly this already.

Shift-F5, Control-F5 also refreshes the page because it ignores the other buttons when F5 is pressed.

TBS AlexDK 22 Oct @ 10:47am

Originally posted by Slimurgical (Stormy):
I'd like to refresh the inside of the client, namely the page I've viewing, whether it's the library, a forum or a store page with F5 instead of just rebooting the entire client, Shift-F5 would be best for rebooting the client. Y'know, if the client is going to continue being a chromium web app, as much as that idea makes me want to puke.

But F5 already just reloads the page you're on, and doesn't reboot Steam, so if Steam reboots, then there might be something else going on.