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

Caolan McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Sun Oct 28 10:40:00 UTC 2007


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.

C.




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