109429 - Use of backspace key to go back one page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108816

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    20011112

Just a basic suggetion.
I've rather gotten used to using "backspace" quite a bit when I want to go back
a page or so.
Ok, well I admit this may not be the best of suggestions considering Mozilla is
already tied to ALT+Left Arrow.  However since backspace is currently not used
for anything, perhaps the backspace key could ALSO be tied to going back a page?
It's a one key command and is known by some IE users.  It kind of makes sense
too - backspace=go back :)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hit backspace key when on a webpage.
Cursor must NOT be in a text field

The only time backspace would not work is if the focus of the cursor is
currenlty in any textfield on the page.
Drop down lists, checkboxes, etc... (which do not contain textfields and do not
utelize backspace) would allow the user to "go back" to the previous page.

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

Reporter: This is fixes in recent nightly builds. You can download a build, or
wait for 0.9.6 (will be out soon).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108816 ***