BACKSPACE "BACK" SHORTCUT IN INTERNET BROWSERS

[microsoft windows]

ANYBODY ELSE ON HERE ABSOLUTELY DETEST THE FEATURE IN INTERNET BROWSERS WHERE THEY ASSIGN THE "BACKSPACE" KEY TO THE "BACK" COMMAND? I DISABLE IT ON EVERY BROWSER I USE.

[i3oilermaker]

MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN TOO - CAN ANYONE HELP?

[digi]

YOU LEAVE MICROSOFT WINDOWS ALONE, HE'S AN O.G.

[microsoft windows]

MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN TOO - CAN ANYONE HELP?

MY CAPS LOCK ISN'T BROKEN. IT WORKS GREAT! I USE IT ALL THE TIME.

ANYWAYS..."BACK" ON TOPIC...HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE BACKSPACE "BACK" SHORTCUT THAT IS PRESENT IN MOST INTERNET BROWSERS?

[lcs]

I LIKE IT. SAVES ME THE MOUSE TROUBLE.

WHY DON'T YOU LIKE IT?

[esoomenona]

It doesn't cause me any problems because I usually always open things in new tabs.

[digi]

MY CAPS LOCK ISN'T BROKEN. IT WORKS GREAT! I USE IT ALL THE TIME.

LOL

[SeriouSSpotS]

I HATE IT TOO!

[Binge]

I FIND THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UNABLE TO PROPERLY USE THEIR BACKSPACE NEED MORE INTRO TO COMPUTER CLASSES.

[tjcaustin]

what kind of sorcery is this? i've never been able to use my backspace for anything but fixing typing errors

[Findecanor]

I don't know what browser you are talking about.
Space is common for scrolling one page down... Shouldn't Back Space key scroll one page up?

There are other things in browser interfaces that bug me more:
- In Chrome/Chromium's text field, if I press Up or Page Up when I am at the top, or Down or Page Down the bottom of a multi-line text field ... the window starts scrolling.
- Firefox is very slow when using multiple tabs or windows, but handles large images well. Chrome is very slow when there are large images, but handles multiple tabs and windows well. This is why I use Chromium and not Firefox right now, but both could be better!

Combination of browser and web pages, which could be fixed in the browser:
- Web pages that map the arrow keys to "page forward"/"page back" in some kind of gallery. The arrow keys are for scrolling the page within the window!
By the way, those galleries should use iframes instead of Javascript-trickery to change images so that the browser's Back button stays valid!
- Web pages that adapt their layouts after loading to the pixel-size of my screen, as if I was browsing full-screen without any window borders. Web pages shouldn't know about how many pixels there are on my screen. You are given a window to play in; That is your sandbox!
- I should be able to tell the browser how many DPI it should assume that the screen has, so that it can map point size to pixel size to make the text as small as I want it. I don't remember if it was Firefox or Opera that had this...
Firefox also had a "minimum font size" setting, so that text like in the post above above wouldn't be unintelligible, like it is in Chromium right now.

[esoomenona]

I've found that Firefox works very well with multiple tabs, to a point. It seems to always have a "memory leak", as I like to call it. The longer it sits open, the more memory it consumes. Thus, a lot of times, I will bookmark all my tabs into a folder or pin them as app tabs, close it, wait for it to close completely, and then reopen.

[microsoft windows]

I FIND THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UNABLE TO PROPERLY USE THEIR BACKSPACE NEED MORE INTRO TO COMPUTER CLASSES.

IT'S NOT KNOWING HOW TO USE THE BACKSPACE KEY THAT GETS ME, BUT IT'S WHEN I'M USING A LAPTOP WITH A TOUCHPAD AND I ACCIDENTALLY TOUCH IT WHEN TYTPING, AND IT TAKES ME OUT OF THE TEXT BOX SO THE "BACKSPACE" SHORTCUT COMES BACK INTO EFFECT. I WON'T NOTICE THAT HAS HAPPENED UNTIL I TRY AND DELETE A TYPE-O. AND WHEN I HIT THE KEY TO DELETE THE TYPE-O, IT BRINGS ME BACK A COUPLE PAGES. THEN I LOSE EVERYTHING I TYPED INTO THE TEXT BOX.

MAYBE I SHOULD MAKE A THREAD ABOUT HATING TOUCHPAD POINTING DEVICES TOO.