Google Chrome continues to be the world's number 1 desktop browser despite Microsoft's super-aggressive push for Microsoft Edge on Windows, and statistics reveal that nearly 70 percent from the systems available run the application produced by looking giant.

And also, since a lot of people depend on Chrome for their daily browsing, it's pretty clear that each single bug in the browser may have a massive impact, with millions of users potentially affected.

This is actually the case of the very single keyboard button that may be pressed accidentally in Google Chrome to possess all browsing data removed.

While you probably know already, Google Chrome allows users to pay off browsing data, including things like history, cache, cookies, and anything else. Carrying this out is possible in the settings screen of the browser, which you can just open manually from the Chrome UI.

But at the same time, if you want to jump straight to the browsing clearing screen, you can just copy the following code within the address bar:

chrome://settings/clearBrowserData

Doing this skips all the other steps and shows all the items that you can clear in the browser, therefore the only thing you must do next would be to select what you want to remove after which click the clear button.

But here's the problem. The clear data button is automatically highlighted, so if you accidentally press the enter button twice whenever you try to load this screen using the aforementioned code, you could remove all of the data without even knowing.

As TechDows spotted, Chromium engineers have discussed the issue inside a recent thread, explaining that it's super-easy to have all data removed accidentally, especially for beginners.

"Goodbye, data. Everything gets cleared immediately since the Clear Data button is concentrated by default. For expert users, the focused-by-default behavior is convenient, but at least in some cases we might not want so that it is. Specifically, entry ways geared toward new users will want to reach the dialog inside a safer state, where explicit activation of the button is required," the engineer said.

The very first proposal to handle the event ended up being to just make the cancel button the one that's highlighted in this screen, essentially eliminating the damage that an accidental press of the enter key twice might have.

"Let's consider getting the Cancel button focused by default instead. This way we are able to press tab once to arm the Clear Data button. It is a safety mechanism that protects all users whilst not causing an excessive amount of burden for those who like quick keyboard-driven clearing," the same engineer proposed.

Google, however, has found an additional way to cope with everything. The enter secret is no longer enabled in the browsing data removal screen, meaning you should utilize a button or touch input (if available) for the entire thing.

Quite simply, the clear button can't be triggered by pressing the enter button around the keyboard. So even though you accidentally press it twice when loading the dialog, there is little happen together with your data, as the second press is ignored from the beginning.

The change has already been implemented within the Canary form of Google Chrome, and that i tested it on Windows 10, and everything works just as described by Google. Obviously, it should escape to any or all users within the next Chrome stable update, no matter the platform - this means Windows users won't be the sole ones obtaining the updated behavior but those found on Linux and Mac too.