379812 - Pressing delete (backspace) on keyboard does not go back in history

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Borokhov (lensovet)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

With build Version 2007050405 (2.0a1pre) of Camino, pressing backspace has no effect when the page has focus. Previously it would go back one page. Cmd-bracket works as expected.
Shift-backspace also does not work as forward.

ps. my browser.backspace_action value is 0, so that's not the culprit.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page
2. Click on a link
3. Make sure page has focus, then press backspace
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Browser goes back one page

Comment 1

[Paul Borokhov (lensovet)]

apologies for the incorrect UA used for reporting this – should be Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070504 Camino/2.0a1pre

Comment 2

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

Stuart, I presume this is also bug 379199?

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

Yep

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Reopening; this will need to be fixed in Camino (probably the same way 405744 will be).

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

I've spend some time looking at this, and I'm not convinced that re-implementing this feature given the current state of trunk is reasonable; see bug 379199 comment 28.

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

well that sucks, i use this every day. :(

Comment 8

[1ptbrbw02]

Yeah, I use it every time I use a browser (of any flavor). I downloaded the 2.0a1pre nightly from 3 days ago (2008101700) to fix another problem (wouldn't launch without crashing), and ended up not being able to use the Delete key to go back.

Comment 9

[Stuart Morgan]

We are aware that it doesn't work, which is why the bug is open. It's not a question of wanting the behavior to work, it's finding a technical solution that addresses the issues raised in comment 5.

Comment 11

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

I really expected we'd have seen more complaints about this; either people are reading the release notes, or not that many people really use it.

Stuart, do we have any strategy to fix this (something like bug 462234?), or should this get moved off the 2.0 list?

Comment 12

[Stuart Morgan]

Fixing it that way scares me, so this will likely be pushed, but let's leave it for the moment so that I remember to look into it at the same time and see if I think it's not as bad as I think.

Comment 13

[Stuart Morgan]

Given that JS could reasonably want to handle delete, I don't think it's a good idea to try to hack around this; we'd almost certainly break web pages. I think we either need bug 379199 fixed, or we need to mini-fork and put a workaround in Cocoa widgets (doing what I suggest in 379199, even if only for the delete key).

Comment 14

[Bruno Panara]

i agree this is an important feature. having it on top of the issues list is probably why not many people complain, i myself came here only now to see if there are developments on this because i knew it was a known issue..
sadly it appears it won't be easily fixed :(

Comment 15

[Bruno Panara]

any news on this?

Comment 16

[Stuart Morgan]

If there were news, it would be in the bug; please don't comment just to ask for updates.

Comment 18

[Ben]

please have this bug fixed. the delete key is a general feature people do a lot when browsing. this is actually a reason why I am not using the beta of camino 2 right now. I tried it for several times now, but all the time the delete key does not work

Comment 19

[Stuart Morgan]

Fixed by the checkin in bug 519922.