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This is what user-specific settings are for.

• lima 10y ago
  Each user-specific setting introduces additional maintenance overhead and rarely used/dead code. Easy to see why they'd want to avoid it.
  • Jtsummers 10y ago
    I have to disagree. I've not dug into customizing Chrome, but creating a mapping for key -> action is pretty much bog standard GUI work, and doesn't require rarely used/dead code. Key presses are captured by the GUI, which maps them to an action. If users want to keep backspace as back, that should be just as easy as letting someone make vi keybindings for navigation.
    • lima 10y ago
      The Chromium team has a policy about these things and most of them are larger pieces of code (this one is an exception). Apparently this case isn't special enough to make an exception, which is understandable since you can just use an addon to restore the old behaviour.