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Chrome 50 backspace backlash, or “listen to your damn users”
At https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608016 lots of users are raising bug reports on Chrome after they removed the backspace-to-navigate-backwards functionality, so much so that they've relented somewhat and published an official extension to restore this capability. https://goo.gl/L30YZ7
"Feel free to point other people at this." they say, well feel free to revert your hasty "fix".
- Bino 10y agoIt's a way forward at least, sometimes things has to be done. It's a good way to keep legacy, and to cleanup code.
- Nadya 10y agoFor most users - it is a fix. It's a better user experience, full stop, for most people. Nearly all users I see browse the web either use MB4/MB5 for "Back/Forward" page navigation or click the arrow UI of their browser. Few people intentionally use backspace - and backspacing during forms (and then losing your form data) is a UX problem. I use backspace for page navigation about as frequently as MB4/MB5 (I never remember which is 4 and which is 5...) - so I hated this change. But I can understand why they made it. https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/