207175 - Hitting backspace no longer navigates one page back in the history

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Teve Torbes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030526 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030526 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Can no longer hit backspace on the keyboard to navigate back one page in the
browser history.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Simply navigate around a bit, and then hit 'backspace' on your keyboard- no
backwards navigation.
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Should have moved back one page in the browser history.

Comment 1

[Vedran Miletic]

Confirming on Windows 2003 Server.

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

Confirming on Windows 2003 Server.

Comment 3

[Neil Parks]

Same problem noted in Windows ME.

Comment 4

[S. Grundner-Culemann]

Confirming on WinXP SP1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030526 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6

Comment 5

[noririty]

Regressed by bug 204777 (attachment 123913 [details] [diff] [review]).
I'm going to make a patch to fix this at home.

Comment 6

[noririty]

Attachment: We don't use platformHTMLBindings.xml anymore.

fix v.1

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

Bryner, can we check this in until a cleaner approach is ready?

Comment 8

[TGOS]

On other Mozilla based browser on certain platforms this did never work. It's
especially annoying if you are entering text into a text field, somehow
accidentically change the focus and go back instead of deleting in the text box
(which sometimes causes you to lose all entered text, even if you hit forward
again at once). Not quite sure if this really needs to be fixed. Does this bug
influence users with a fourth mouse button, that use this button to go back in
browser?

Comment 9

[alanjstr]

Backspace for going back has been around a long time (and discussed in other
places).  It broke, therefore I think it should be fixed.  If you don't like it
that much, then you can edit your browser.xul to remove it.  

Comment 10

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Comment on attachment 124276 [details] [diff] [review]
We don't use platformHTMLBindings.xml anymore.

Good, but we can do better by #ifdef'ing the XUL file (via the XUL
preprocessor) so that this only happens on win32.  I'll make that change and
check it in.

Comment 11

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

checked in.

Comment 12

[Dai Toyama]

Please enable this feature in the Linux version, too.  I was able to add it
manually by editing platformHTMLBindings.xml, but it's not used anymore, right?

Comment 13

[eric lindvall]

If the platformHTMLBindings.xml is going away, what is to replace it?

I have always hated the backspace-goes-back functionality in IE and much
prefered the backspace-is-page-up that NN4 used.

Doesn't "just update the browser.xul" involve un-zipping some jars, making
changes to a huge file, and then zipping it again?

Comment 14

[Jason Lustig]

Because some people don't want it, perhaps we should make it an option in
about:config for how this is handled?

Comment 15

[tyl2]

I agree. Or user.js. Or are they the same?

Comment 16

[alanjstr]

user.js is a way of storing prefs for future re-use.  It is read in every time
the browser starts.  Changes made to about:config are stored in prefs.js.  If
[backspace] doesn't work on Linux, I suggest filing an RFE.

Comment 17

[Vedran Miletic]

v

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030601 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6