[Bug 119051] Re: backspace button does nothing in Firefox

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:21:57AM -0000, bartek wrote:
> 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?

Before we can fix something, we first need an issue.

Of course only people unhappy with this change show up here, so
reading the bug log is not a way to gather data on what the expected
behaviour should be.

... so we follow upstream here.

 - Alexander


** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mozilla Bugs
       Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected

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backspace button does nothing in Firefox
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