Firefox backspace button action should be "Previous Page" not "Page Up"

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Sun Oct 28 11:14:41 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 00:47 +0200, Mark wrote:
>> 2007/10/28, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>:
>>> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 00:34 +0200, Mark wrote:
>>>> I don't know where firefox is getting the "logic" to make firefox
>>>> default backspace action "previous page" in windows and "page up" in
>>>> linux.. just doesn't make sense to me.
>>> It's "Back" in Internet Explorer... but nowhere else (other than
>>> FF/Win32).
>> Back (for backspace) is intuitive. 
> 
> Back for backspace is the stupidest thing ever, backspace should be
> restricted to delete text. All that happens is that you just forget to
> click into the form, hit backspace thinking you're about to delete a
> letter and loose the entire page, horrific. Bind it to nothing at all I
> say.

Makes complete sense, but this is Firefox TM, meddling with it isn't so
simple unless you want to make an IceWeasel type non-TM variant.

-Andy




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