Chrome removes Backspace to go back
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Chrome removes Backspace to go back
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Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#2This is most annoying. I have used this for the past twenty years and have not lost form data using it. In any event, chrome seems to remember form contents upon navigating back to a form page.
Leave my muscle memory alone please.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#3They don't spend any time fixing everything that's broken with modern computers, instead they spend time changing things that weren't broken. Great.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#4This is most annoying. I have used this for the past twenty years and have not lost form data using it. In any event, chrome seems to remember form contents upon navigating back to a form page. Leave my muscle memory alone please.
I think I use backspace about half the time and cmd-left (osx) the other half. I quite like the cmd-left/right because of the symmetry; as far as I know, there is no backspace equivalent for forward.
What's still really annoying is that cmd-back doesn't work if a text input is focussed, so navigating back through several pages becomes a game of repeated cmd-left, interspersed with left clicks on a 'non-active' part of the page, or a series of TABs to leave all inputs.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#5Analysis from Chrome devs here https://codereview.chromium.org/1854963002
Though I am a frequent user of backspace in Chrome I'm inclined to agree with their decision. Almost no one is using it and casual users are confused by it.
I'll just wait for someone to implement the feature in an extension.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#6One of the contributors states:
"Building an extension for this should be very simple."
Why on earth isn't there just a generic keyboard-shortcut preference where I can control every possible browser action and its associated keyboard shortcut? In fact, why isn't this available at an OS level? Surely it would remove a lot of unnecessary duplicate code.
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#7This is most annoying. I have used this for the past twenty years and have not lost form data using it. In any event, chrome seems to remember form contents upon navigating back to a form page. Leave my muscle memory alone please.
I think I use backspace about half the time and cmd-left (osx) the other half. I quite like the cmd-left/right because of the symmetry; as far as I know, there is no backspace equivalent for forward. What's still really annoying is that cmd-back doesn't work if a text input is focussed, so navigating back through several pages becomes a game of repeated cmd-left, interspersed with left clicks on a 'non-active' part o…
Shift backspace goes forward
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#8This has always been annoying when doing it on accident. Good riddance!
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#9Nooooooooo!
Re: Chrome removes Backspace to go back
#10I 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.