357669 - Backspace key behavior changed (again...)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 351218

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Fechner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Hi,
it seems some people with a Gnome-only mindset managed to get the backspace key behavior changed again to something completely unexpected (page-up). Seems like this is supposed to be standard in Gnome, but please remember, that Firefox is not only used under Gnome, but other window-managers too. It is, after all, not a Gnome application, but a GTK application.
I think the best solution for this would be an about:config option to decide the effect. That could both please the zealots and help the normal people stay sane.

Thank for your consideration of this problem,
Nicholas

PS: Should I get all the other FF linux users to complain too?
Would that help fix the problem faster?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to site 1
2. Go to site 2
3. Try to use backspace to go back
4. Stare in wonder...

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Like 
  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
perhaps ? :-)

Comment 2

[Nicholas Fechner]

Cool, thanks.
Ok, and now for that manual...

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 351218 ***