back button in firefox?

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 08:49 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 06/15/2012 11:37 PM, David wrote:
> > On 6/16/2012 12:32 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> >> On 06/15/2012 03:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> >>> I've tried a new profile and no extensions and still see the
> >>> weirdness with the back button.
> >>>
> >>> It may well be gtk as the button normally has a bit of
> >>> a fancy GUI effect when it is clicked, and no such
> >>> effect shows up when it is ignoring it. When it finally
> >>> does react to the button, I see both the button
> >>> effect and the action of actually going back to
> >>> previous page.
> >>>
> >>> For grins, I tried installing google chrome, and it has
> >>> no such problems (it merely constantly prompts
> >>> me to give my soul to google :-).
> >>>
> >>
> >> FWIW, I too see the strangeness with the back button in FireFox.  Have to hit it twice to go back to the previous page.  I've seen
> >> this in some previous versions as well.  I'm on rawhide running FF13.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > The mouse rear thumb button does not work for you to go back?
> > 
> 
> There is no mouse rear thumb button on my mouse and even if there were the back button in FF should work.
> 
> Kevin

Has anyone tried going to about:config and checking the
browser.backspace_action setting? For the backspace key to work as a
back button, this must be set to 0.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL