From that codereview site: "We're doing this via a flag so that we can control this behavior should there be sufficient outcry." So it would be hopefully poss

From that codereview site: "We're doing this via a flag so that we can control this behavior should there be sufficient outcry." So it would be hopefully possible to re-enable it via chrome://flags or something like --enable-backspace… Edit: Or not –– "We ended up not having a flag for this. Even if we had it, it would only have been in place for a single release."