jeremiahtext Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.80 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I was typing in a text field, hit backspace and it went to the previous page and lost my work.


Actual results:

I hit the backspace button and it went back.


Expected results:

Not going back. Honestly a stupid and useless feature everyone hates.

	Andre Klapper
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

Cannot reproduce the problem. Does this always happen? Or just on special pages?
Do you mean the backspace key on your keyboard, or what is a "backspace button"?

	Gingerbread Man
	Comment 2 • 9 years ago
workaround

That shouldn't happen when a text field has focus. Does it always happen when typing in text fields? For example, on either of the following pages? If not, then what page were you on when it happened?
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_form_text
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_elem_textarea

You can disable this feature altogether:
1. In the location bar, paste the following, then press Enter:
about:config?filter=browser.backspace_action
2. Click the “I'll be careful, I promise!” button to bypass the warning.
3. In the search results, double-click “browser.backspace_action”.
4. At the “Enter integer value” prompt, type 2 then press Enter.

As for making this the default behavior, see bug 69981, comment 39 and bug 108816.

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #1)
> Cannot reproduce the problem.

Please post your user agent string and build ID when making such statements. The Backspace key only triggers going back a page on Windows.

	kavya
	Comment 3 • 8 years ago

cannot reproduce the problem.The steps to reproduce is not clear.

	Gingerbread Man
	Comment 4 • 6 years ago

Closing due to lack of response from reporter. Bug 1467667 was just filed about the same issue on Facebook.