192117 - Unassign Delete Key for "Go Back" to resolve many bugs related text edit

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181198

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, defect)

Description

[wp4hizw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030205 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030205 Chimera/0.6+

There are many bug reports already submitted, which cause problem that deleting
texts in a text field by delete key does not delete it, but go back the page.
Why do not you try to unassign the delete key from "Go Back"? I think this key
**** makes logic in Chimera complecated.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Always
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Go back page insted of deleting texts

Expected Results:  
Mozilla does not have the delete key assigned

Comment 1

[Chris Casciano]

is this still an issue with form controls or have the other issues resolved
themselves? (I haven't noticed it myself but that' may just be a workflow/habit
thing)

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

I think theres a bug with a patch floating around

Comment 3

[Jeff Hume]

Use of the Delete key for going back is bad UI from IE. Not only is it a problem
when the user is in the form control, often you might think the form control is
in focus, but it really isn't (due to a click outside of it) which can confuse
the user.

Comment 4

[Chris Casciano]

*** Bug 214805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Zachary]

Not to mention, the key  combination command + [ already does this functionality
in a much better manner.  

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

bug 181198 deals with the same issue. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181198 ***

Comment 7

[Garrett Smith]

bug 181198  Browser goes Back when trying to delete Japanese text, was regarding Japanese and other language characters and appears to have been fixed without affecting this bug.

The delete key still navigates back, causing a text area to lose it's value.

 * The kbd shortcut for Back is "command + [", which is not easy to accidentally hit. 

 * We don't need 2 shortcuts for Back command. 1 is enough!

 * Comment #3

 * delete->Back was bad u/x for Mac IE and still is bad u/x for Firefox. 

reopened.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

[e-mail], don't reopen old, closed bugs for advocacy, especially not bugs in another product than the product you're complaining about.

You have been able to use the browser.backspace_action pref to change this behavior for some time now, anyway.