Mozilla developers plan to remove support for using the Backspace key as a Back button inside Firefox. The change is currently active in the Firefox Nightly version and is expected to go live in ...

Chrome: In the newest version of Chrome, Google changed the backspace key’s behavior so it no longer works as a keyboard shortcut to go back a page. Go Back with Backspace is a Google developed ...

Microsoft is announcing Windows 8 hardware peripherals, today they introduced the Sculpt Comfort Keyboard, an keyboard featuring an enlarged split spacebar with optional backspace functionality that ...

Have you ever filled out a form in Chrome, only to hit the backspace key accidentally? Suddenly you're catapulted to the previous page in your browsing history, losing everything you had just ...

Mozilla Firefox is disabling the browser's backspace key to prevent users from accidentally losing data typed into forms. In 2014, Google removed the ability to go back to a previous page by using the ...

Lots of very smart people work at Google, but that doesn't mean they're immune from making decisions that piss people off. Consider this recent Chrome kerfuffle: some users were recently shocked to ...

Google Chrome is fixing a huge pain point for its users. In its next big release, Chrome is removing the keyboard shortcut that makes the "backspace" key return to the previous page. This "feature" ...

Have you ever been filling out a form online, only to mess something up, requiring you to hit the Backspace key? If you're lucky, it simply deleted the text that you wanted it to. However, if you were ...

As someone who is among the group who has lost work due to the backspace key navigating back instead of simply deleting something, I'm pretty happy to leave this extension alone and forget it exists.

Obviously it still erases the character to the left of your cursor. But when you’re viewing folders in Windows Explorer, Backspace no longer moves you “up” a folder in the hierarchy like it did in ...