Ever spend oh I don’t know, an HOUR typing up something big in a web form, and somewhere toward the end… maybe the last period or so, you press the backspace key on your keyboard and BOOM! you instantaniously get sent back to the previous webpage?
Yep, I just did that… not fun. When you’re completing forms using IE, you better make sure you keep track which window is in focus or you’re going down.
back button = backspace used to be a good idea, maybe in 1997 but not today. As one guy puts it: “It falls in to the same catagory as the f-lock key and Jar Jar Binks!”
So come to find out, you actually can disable it in firefox:
Type about:config in Firefox Location Box, and then confirm the warning message. Then locate the following preference name: browser.backspace_action
Change the browser.backspace_action to one of the following values to reflect your intention on how the Backspace key should behaves:
0: Pressing [Backspace] will go back a page in the session history and [Shift]+[Backspace] will go forward. (Default in Windows)
1: Pressing [Backspace] will scroll up a page in the current document and [Shift]+[Backspace] will scroll down. Except Camino that does not implement any behavior for the value 1, which is unmapped. (Default in Linux builds before 2006-12-07)
Any other integer number: Any other integer value will simply unmap the backspace key. In Linux builds after 2006-12-07, the default is 2.
Source: My Digital Life
Doesn’t look like there’s a solution for IE. I guess I’ll have to um, “stage” my big form entries in notepad first
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