I am glad they are making this change. I've lost my form data by accidentally going back while trying to erase something in a text field so many times.
Chrome removes Backspace to go back
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Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#182And i'll never use chrome again.
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#183This is why I switched to Vivaldi. All the shortcut keys are customizable. It also includes mouse gestures for quick back/forward with the mouse. I prefer having the choice than someone else dictating.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great news. For some use cases, backspace-as-back is a disaster waiting to happen, for example, in a complex web app used in some time-critical task and that requires occasional deleting of text but can lose state or take a while to reload if you accidentally hit back. If you hit backspace without having a text field focused, the whole thing dies and needs to be reloaded and possibly checked to make sure it's…
>I have seen laptops with the backspace key physically ripped out just to prevent people from accidentally triggering its back-button behavior. how would you correct mistakes? with the delete button?
ctrl+x
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm primarily on Windows and that first feature annoys the heck out of me. I would rather scrolling stop or continue, but the snap-back when the mouse leaves a zone is irritating. I think the second is more of an optimization because when you click on the address bar you're most likely either copying or overwriting the URL. It's much less common to modify it. If you want a supremely annoying address bar, you should c…
I believe the name of the feature is called "breadcrumbs" and i also dont like it very much, as one poster stated it is nice to go up several levels without making many clicks but i prefer to see the entire URI and be able to modify it as oppose to breadcrumb "directory buttons"
If you click to the right of everything, then it turns into a textbox and you can modify it at will.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#186Good. I always set browser.backspace_action to do nothing in Firefox, because this is SO infuriating. You think you have a text field focused but you actually don't (e.g. accidental mouse click removed the focus), you press Backspace and BOOM! suddenly you're on the previous page.
Ctrl/Cmd+[ and ] is the real shortcut!
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#187Next up: remove form submit on return from textarea fields.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least Firefox has about:config, and everything can be changed there.
woah.. didn't know about that. It's a monster list of exposed internal variables? Talk about inaccessible...
MozillaZine has some documentation describing many of the about:config preferences:
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#189⌘← master race!!!
...but seriously, if I had a dollar for every time I've tried to hit "delete" (backspace on mac) to delete something I had selected in a web app and had it navigate back losing my unsaved changes I'd have a couple bucks.
It's rare, but it's annoying when it does happen.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#190I might be the minority here, but I think that using the backspace to go back is counter intuitive. In my mind backspace is to delete something, and I always worry about that.
This is great news. For some use cases, backspace-as-back is a disaster waiting to happen, for example, in a complex web app used in some time-critical task and that requires occasional deleting of text but can lose state or take a while to reload if you accidentally hit back. If you hit backspace without having a text field focused, the whole thing dies and needs to be reloaded and possibly checked to make sure it's…
Giant web forms have been a usability disaster since day one. Accidental back button, link click, window close, session timeout, etc, increase the chance of a failure and need to re-enter the entire form. Whereas for at least 40 years desktop software has given you a "sure you don't want to save?" option.