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Personally, the amount of time I've spent re-typing data into a browser form because of accidentally pressing the backspace key while a field wasn't focused (us
by alyandon 10y ago
Personally, the amount of time I've spent re-typing data into a browser form because of accidentally pressing the backspace key while a field wasn't focused (usually caused by brushing the touchpad on my laptop) far outweighs the speed benefits I gained from using backspace to navigate back into my browser history over the past 15 years.
However, it would have been nicer for the Chromium developers to allow users to remap key bindings instead of removing the binding and telling users to use an unpublished extension to add the functionality back.
- ryandrake 10y agoImagine the outcry if all of a sudden Microsoft decided that the backspace key in Word should no longer work, and suggested that users who wanted the functionality fixed should go download and install a third party plugin.
- takeda 10y agoBackspace is totally useless. Not sure about Chrome, but in other browsers you can use alt+left arrow alt+right arrow, which is more intuitive and harder to do accidentally.