187270 - Backspace for Navigation and Typeahead and don't go well together

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 177005

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Now that Typeahead Find is implemented I had to learn it the hard way that
backspace has several "meanings": You can correct the search word using BS but
if Typeahead Find is cancelled a BS sends you one page back in history. That's
bad!

I suggest a preference setting for disabling backspace navigation!

Cheers

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Perhaps we should reopen bug 177005.

My fix was to beep and require 1 more backspace. Perhaps the fix should have
been to disabled backspace when typeaheadfind starts, until typeahead is
cancelled by some other means than backspace.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177005 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup.

Comment 3

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

I don't want backspace to do any navigation as it produces many mistakes on
pages with forms.
Thus I reconfigured the key bindings in  platformNavigationBindings.xul:
Remove 

    <!-- Supporting IE forward and back accelerators out of courtesy
         to transitioning IE users -->
    <key keycode="VK_BACK" command="Browser:Back"/>
    <key keycode="VK_BACK" command="Browser:Forward" modifiers="shift"/>

and backspace navigation is no longer a problem.