Published on Sun, 2006-11-19 21:28
Secret Firefox Config Hacking: Fix the Backspace Bug
My man (and Firefox engineer) Tony Chang just answered one of my biggest problems with FF. When you hit backspace on a page, it's equivalent to hitting the back button. This is especially annoying on forms, as I'll often hit backspace one too many times and end up going off the page, which kills whatever other work I've done on the form. Raaar!
Luckily there's a fix for this. You type about:config into your browser bar, and search for "backspace." Then double-click on the browser.backspace_action line, and change the value to -1.
Problem solved. Thanks, Tony.
Bug?
Mon, 2006-11-20 10:06 — JeremyI always thought the backspace thing was a feature, not a bug. Because I have one of these 12" PowerBook's, I've become addicted to keyboard shortcuts and that's one that I use quite often.
Anyway, I be if David Lowery used FireFox, he'd use the delete key to go back, too.
Feature!
Mon, 2006-11-20 10:51 — Outlandish JoshI think it's probably intended for that. I'm so used to two-handed shortcuts that I like command+left-arrow. I also work with a fuckton of websites that use forms (this is a large portion of my dayjob) so it hits me extra hard.
The nice thing is that it's configurable.
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