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When I was near the end, I pressed backspace to clear my answer, and it wound up navigating me back to HN, wiping out my results. (I hate backspace-to-go-back.

When I was near the end, I pressed backspace to clear my answer, and it wound up navigating me back to HN, wiping out my results. (I hate backspace-to-go-back. It's the worst feature in a browser. Is there a way to turn it off?) This mental math exercise is a cool and fun concept! Good execution.

minikites 12y ago
You can in Firefox: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
Fishkins 12y ago
In Chrome I think you can only do this with an extension. I use BackStop.
JesseAldridge 12y ago
http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/backspacemeansbackspace/ http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/backs...
jodrellblank 12y ago
It's also "the worst" feature in Windows Explorer folder view; when it switched from going up the folder tree to going to the previous folder and throwing an error if that folder doesn't exist anymore.
rkwz 12y ago
> I hate backspace-to-go-back. It's the worst feature in a browser. Is there a way to turn it off? I love this feature. Makes browser navigation keyboard friendly. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
- friendzis 12y ago
  What about [alt]+arrow?
- bkanber 12y ago
  I really like Cmd+[ and Cmd+] for back/forward. Also because Cmd+Shift+[ and Cmd+Shift+] are tab prev/tab next.
kissickas 12y ago
I love backspace = back button. What I need is delete = forward, so I can undo the action when I accidentally trigger it.