263675 - [Mac] Backspace does not take you back

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220590

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[José Jeria]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041008
Firefox/0.10

Pressing backspace does not take you back, like the Windows version. Instead the
cursor disappears. 

I am kind of new to mac, so i thought that backspace was reserverd for something
else, but it works as expected in Safari and Opera.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Camino does this.

I think that the backspace key is interpreted as typing which is why the cursor
is shielded.

Cmd-{ will take you back.

Comment 2

[timeless]

to some, backspace is the opposite of space (which happens to be pagedown,
making it pageup). the backspace as go back idea was a win ie-ism. i haven't
tried it in mac ie, and you didn't specify. so... out of curiosity, what happens
if you use backspace in macie?

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

on Mac/IE, Delete goes back a page, Shift-Delete goes forward a page.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #2)
> what happens if you use backspace in macie?

With IE Mac 5.2.3 backspace also takes me back

Comment 5

[HARUNAGA Hirotoshi]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220590 ***