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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by rootusrootus on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:11AM (#24590623)
> accidentally backspace while not in a text field

Thankfully that can be disabled, but I find it to be one of the most infuriating 'features' of Firefox. If it weren't something that could be turned off, it would be a deal killer all by itself.

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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by TakerofVita on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:31AM (#24590860)
Well, Chrome used to do this too until they removed it in 2016. Internet explorer does this. It was more of a default than a 'feature of Firefox'.
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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by bhauer on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:18PM (#24594688)
Also, in most normal web pages—at least those not using hideously over-complicated scripting—just pressing your "forward" button (Alt+Right, for example) will navigate forward and restore the edits you had in the form.
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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by throwaway8941 on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:00PM (#24591193)
I didn't even know this "feature" was available on Firefox (despite using it since version 2). Turns out, it is only enabled on Windows:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action

Maybe it was copied from IE to keep "closer to the platform"?

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Re:People expect technology to suck because it sucks by rootusrootus on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:23PM (#24591451)
It's definitely not limited to Windows. I am exclusively a MacOS user (for my workstation, at least) and I have had to disable it on any new Firefox install.
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