208840 - Disabling Backspace==Back in history. platformHTMLBindings.xml method dead?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Tomer Altman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030609
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030609

Up until the latest nightlies, if I wanted to disable the fact backspace = page
back (on windows), I was instructed to change some lines of code in
mozilla\res\builtin\platformHTMLBindings.xml to remove the event handler.
However, in the latest nightly, this handler doesn't exist in the that file,
therefore, I can't change it. I have tried to copy the working handler, which
disables this feature, to the new file, in the correct location, but it doesn't
change. What is the new way to do this?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a link.
2. Press backspace.

Actual Results:  
The browser returned to the previous page.

Expected Results:  
Nothing.

Comment 1

[fredex]

What's just as bad, is if you're on a Linux platform, beginning at Firebird 0.61
you are unable to ENABLE the backspace==>cmdBrowserBack behavior by adding the
appropriate mapping to this file. It worked fine in .6, but as of .61 (and now
.7) it no longer works.

I don't mind too much if the default behavior is different, but why, pray tell,
would it have been changed to prevent maping it that way if I happen to WANT it?

Comment 2

[Alex]

Here's a workound that should at least let you block backspace for now.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=62742

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is not a bug.