[Bug 119051] backspace button does nothing in Firefox

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

In almost every web browser the backspace button takes you back to the previous page. Not so in Firefox 2.0 (It did in Firefox 1.5.)
This is the result of several bugs reported to firefox with this being the last bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358764
Backspace was set so it was going 1 page up and not down.
The developers of Firefox changed it so every linux distro can choose what to do with it:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358764#c11
[quote]mode?  And thirdly, there is a Firefox
config setting to change the behavior of the backspace key.  So with all these
things, the minority of users who want to change the backspace functionality
can easily do so, and like I said, a particular Linux distribution is free to
ship that as the default as well.[/quote]

We now have to do this to get these settings:
Type “about:config” in the address bar of Firefox and press Enter.
`Filter` for ‘browser.backspace_action’ and change its value to 0 (zero).

Is it possible to get this fixed in Gutsy Gibbon?

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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backspace button does nothing in Firefox
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119051
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