Firefox 2 & Backspace

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:19:49PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
> Jens Cedlind wrote the following on 15.10.2006 14:47:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Is it just my FF that's behaving odd, or is the behavior of backspace
> > changed from 'Back' to 'Go to top'?

Firefox changed this in 2.0 betas.

Another unexpected change I've noticed is that you can no longer use
Alt+letters for accesskeys in web pages; you have to press
Alt+Shift+letter instead.

> > I've poked around in the prefs without finding any way to change it back.

Go to about:config and set browser.backspace_action to 0.

> But acording to http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard it
> should work.

I think that page refers to Firefox 1.5.

> So i guess it´s a bug and should be filled.
> 
> and allready is:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/60995/

I've mentioned the workaround there as well.

Marius Gedminas
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