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If you hit Backspace in error, you can disable the “Go Back” action associated with the backspace key using about:config like so: browser.backspace_action = 2
by jhatax 9y ago
If you hit Backspace in error, you can disable the “Go Back” action associated with the backspace key using about:config like so:
browser.backspace_action = 2
Read [1] for more instructions.
If you explicitly used the mouse to click the Back button, I am sorry for the time you lost.
1. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
- markrages 9y agoAllow me to introduce the Thinkpad X61 keyboard: http://i.imgur.com/JitlIPa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JitlIPa.jpg That's a dedicated "go back" button between up arrow and right ctrl. My webmail is unusable without Lazarus. I've taken to composing in emacs and pasting the result into forms.
- michaelmrose 9y agoWith the appropriate extension this can be made seemless. Hit a hotkey get an emacs buffer with the current contents of input box. Write some stuff and save and quit. Input box now contains contents of emacs buffer. Annoyingly this requires a service that sits in the background in chrome because security wont let chrome launch such a process. In chrome you can use text-aid-too. Pentadactyl/vimperator can do it with firefox and others.
- fnj 9y agoI don't see any control keys at all in that picture! This has to be a joke.
- detaro 9y agoThere are more languages than English in the world. Keyboard has 2 control keys, as it should.
- Silhouette 9y agobrowser.backspace_action = 2 Thank you, that's very useful! My earlier mistake was clicking to focus on my Firefox window but not quite on the form text area I was aiming for, and then trying to delete the last word I had typed. Your tip would have saved me on that occasion.