F7: the backspace key does not work in browsers.

Clodoaldo clodoaldo.pinto.neto at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 16:08:42 UTC 2007


2007/6/6, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>:
> Clodoaldo wrote:
> >  The normal behavior of the backspace in browsers is to go back to
> >  the last visited page.
> >
> >  I fresh installed F7-gnome and now in Firefox the backspace is
> >  acting as the page-up key and in Epiphany it does nothing.
>
> This drove me nuts as well (though I understand the reasoning of
> using ctrl+left and ctrl+right for navigation).

Ctrl-left and Ctrl-right don't work for me. Are they the replacements
for backspace and Shift-Backspace?

> For firefox, open about:config and change browser.backspace_action to
> 0 to restore the old behavior.

I changed that and now I have my old backspace back.

> I don't use Epiphany so I don't have any help there. :)

I also don't. Just tested it to verify if it was only Firefox misbehaving.

Clodoaldo




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