browser.backspace_action

[Rydian]

In firefox setting this value to anything other than 0 or 1 makes the backspace key no longer go back a page if you press it while focus isn't inside a text window.

THANK GOD.

This is something that's been irking me for years.

 

[Nujui]

Do you know how to do it on Google Chrome? That's annoying me too.

 

[tj_cool]

You can't do it in Chrome.

There's an extension for it though:
http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance...meansbackspace/
(not tested)

 

[Nujui]

Thanks. Love the title of it. "BackspacemeansBackspace".

 

[~De arimasu]

I tend to navigate my browser with my keyboard because it's too much effort to use the touchpad most of the time, but I can see how that function would annoy people when you've just written a huge block of text :L

 

[monkat]

UGH!

That bugged the hell out of me until I learned to just kinda let my pinky flop until I needed it.

 

[ineap09]

That's nice there's a way to disable it, but I won't since I use backspace to go back a page 90% of the time I want to go back a page. I can only think of a couple times I accidentally went back a page. Both times I had all my text copied anyway so I didn't lose anything.

It's 'cause I have such slow internet. It goes out all the time so I have the habit completely ingrained in me to constantly copy the text I type.
(I've already copied this message about 7 different times)(8)(9)

Dang it! I can't stop copying after I add/change anything!

 

[ProtoKun7]

Wouldn't bother me; I don't press it unless I mean it.

 

[Arras]

Nice to know it can be turned off. Somehow that variable was set to 2 already, though.