592268 - Change the keyboard shortcut for "Back" to something that can be hit with one left hand

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[fisjue2]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Is ist possibele to programm for the "back" Button for the keyboard not "Alt+Arrow left" because nobody fingers on the left hand are so far. You must take the another hand from the mouse. Is not so conform i think! Maybe you take "ctrl+arrow left" or "shift+arrow left" same change for forward Button!
Thank you!
Greatings from Germany!

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Is ist possibele to programm for the "back" Button for the keyboard not "Alt+Arrow left" because nobody fingers on the left hand are so far. You must take the another hand from the mouse. Is not so conform i think! Maybe you take "ctrl+arrow left" or "shift+arrow left" same change for forward Button!
Thank you!
Greatings from Germany!


Is ist possibele to programm for the "back" Button for the keyboard not "Alt+Arrow left" because nobody fingers on the left hand are so far. You must take the another hand from the mouse. Is not so conform i think! Maybe you take "ctrl+arrow left" or "shift+arrow left" same change for forward Button!
Thank you!
Greatings from Germany!

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can also use the backspace key and if you want to use the mouse, use mouse button 4 and 5

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I'm not sure how "Ctrl+left" is better. The problem with trying to hit alt+left with your left hand is that the arrow keys are on the right side of the keyboard...

Comment 3

[David Balažic]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #1)

You can also use the backspace key and if you want to use the mouse, use
mouse button 4 and 5

• backspace no longer has that function
• not every mouse has those buttons

Duplicate of bug 55759 ?
And bug 375459 ?

Also, I'm 99% sure there was a more recent bug about this... yes, I opened bug 1700919 in 2021 that is marked as a duplicate of bug 1685995.

These are all about the same issue: navigate back in history with keyboard using one hand
and so should be linked as duplicates (or similar).