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Unfortunately, your advanced mouse driver software generates keyboard shortcuts to Firefox for those extra buttons; Firefox doesn't actually handle more than 3 buttons. In case the mouse driver is sending the Backspace key, you can set Firefox to ignore that. (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste backs and pause while the list is filtered (2) In the search box that appears above the list, type or paste backs and pause while the list is filtered (3) Double-click the browser.backspaceaction preference and enter the desired value:. 0 = back (default). 1 = page up. 2 = ignore (actually, anything other than 0 or 1 does nothing) OK to save the change.
Does that help at all? If not, what device is it? Unfortunately, your advanced mouse driver software generates keyboard shortcuts to Firefox for those extra buttons; Firefox doesn't actually handle more than 3 buttons. In case the mouse driver is sending the Backspace key, you can set Firefox to ignore that.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste backs and pause while the list is filtered (2) In the search box that appears above the list, type or paste backs and pause while the list is filtered (3) Double-click the browser.backspaceaction preference and enter the desired value:. 0 = back (default). 1 = page up. 2 = ignore (actually, anything other than 0 or 1 does nothing) OK to save the change. Does that help at all? If not, what device is it?
Unfortunately, your advanced mouse driver software generates keyboard shortcuts to Firefox for those extra buttons; Firefox doesn't actually handle more than 3 buttons. In case the mouse driver is sending the Backspace key, you can set Firefox to ignore that. (1) In a new tab, type or paste 'about:config' in the address bar and press Enter.
Click the button promising to be careful. (2) In the search box above the list, type or paste 'backs' and pause while the list is filtered (2) In the search box that appears above the list, type or paste backs and pause while the list is filtered (3) Double-click the 'browser.backspaceaction' preference and enter the desired value:. 0 = back (default). 1 = page up. 2 = ignore (actually, anything other than 0 or 1 does nothing) OK to save the change. Does that help at all?
If not, what device is it?
An anonymous reader writes: Google Chrome is going to stop people from accidentally deleting everything they've been doing. A future version of the app will. The change has already been rolled out in some experimental versions of the app, and has upset some users. Developers have said that the feature is only being partly enabled for now,.
People regularly press the button thinking that they're deleting a word from a form, developers said, but then find that they weren't actually typing into that form and so accidentally go back, losing everything they've done. There used to be a set of golden rule guides on good GUI design. Some of the rules were: 1.
Make every window consistent. Ensure that every window has a CANCEL, exit without changing anything button 3. Ensure that 'dangerous' options are separated well away from 'harmless' options. Ensure that anything that could be undone was guarded with a 'confirm' and with a timeout 5. Ensure that the user was queried when they tried to leave without saving work.
Ensure that backup copies were saved somewhere perma. It was dumb to map backspace to back anyway. With Internet and browsers dominating existence, keyboards should be redesigned with common browser clickies built in and separate from editing keys.
Consider your useless neck broken and your body left for the wolves. And thus the wheel of pain spins full circle. Mainframe terminals have always worked this way. The terminal is sent a non-web form, the user enters some data in fields with Tab and Return serving only and always to move the cursor around. Once you're done, there was a separate 'Xmit' key to post the form. Form submission was always explicit, and entirely compatible with high-speed touch-typists.
I don't use backspace but I DO use a LOT of hotkeys, so I sympathise with people who used backspace. I have been stung by this once or twice but 99% of the time nowadays the browsers are clever enough to cache EVERYTHING and you hit forward and it's all fixed.
As you said though, how about an option for it? OOOOOOOOOPSIE DAISY! We're talking about god-damned-I-know-best-shut-your-idiot-mouth Chrome, where options are EVIL. They won't give you an option to do a god damned thing. They can have a fast and r.
If there were an option for every setting on which users has varying opinions, the preferences page would be so cluttered that you'd get frustrated by the overly complex interface and complain even more loudly about that. Sawfish vs metacity So we should abolish all user choice until every interface is basically iOS? No thanks, I prefer a huge selection of well-categorised settings to explore and personalise, its my favourite part of getting new software and usually hardware too (I'm not joking).
The only reason I'm still on windows is because I can lose endless hours playing with regedit, who needs videogames? (Ok somewhat joking that time). Firefox will ask you whether you want to leave a page before going back if there's data entered on the page. I call bullshit.
I have lost many FogBugz responses over the years because Firefox inexplicably decided that a Backspace keystroke in a case edit should be interpreted as a 'Previous page' command instead of deleting the previous character. When dealing with longer responses we now tend to write them in Atom, Notepad, etc. And copy-paste the final output into FogBugz so as to avoid the pain. It is the form developer's fault for not building a navigation confirmation into their page With JavaScript, one can add a listener for the beforeunload event. But a lot of pop-up ads have abused onbeforeunload to add an 'are you sure you want to close this ad?' Besides, how should a form developer do this in an environment where JavaScript is blocked, such as NoScript, LibreJS, tracking blockers that mistakenly block the CDN hosting a script, or a corporate MITM proxy put in place 'to block ransomware'. That's why some Slashdot users have recommended using the heuristic.
Can they instead keep full state of the page you were in and make forward button work such that all form data is not lost? If you accidentally press back button you can just press forward button to get back to where you were. In my limited understanding, this behavior is controlled by the website, not browser. This is done on purpose and is part of web standards (standard practices, at least). Sites can specify to preserve the form content through page back/forward, or they can specify to delete it after the page is left.
Many sites use both options on purpose. The default in website software is usually to delete, as this is best for secirity (login screens, submission of cc and other personal data. Most typed-in things are b. Why not fix the actual problem of the forward button not returning them to the page with all of their work in tact?and while they're at it, they can make the browser display a file upload progress indicator, just like it displays a file download progress indicator, so that every web site in the world doesn't have to hack together some javascript bullshit just so that users realize something is actually happening when they click 'upload.'
Fucking idiot web browser developers. Can't think outside of the b. I cannot imagine just how the fuck you would store every form value, JS variable, DHTML element state, dynamically loaded resource and HTML5 local store content perfectly back to their original states. Why would you need to do that? Going back could simply hide the current page for some brief period before closing it. Go forward within that period and just make it visible again. Or, you know, prevent the problem in the first place by not mapping the backspace key to the back function.
(In FireFox: set browser.backspaceaction = 2) When you're faced with a ridiculously complicated solution, look around a bit, there's usually a much simpler one. Fucking idiot web browser developers So you'll just let us know when you have solved this incredibly easy problem, then? It seems you know quite a bit about HTTP, HTML/5, JS, CSS, browsers and UI design. More than me obviously, because I cannot imagine just how the fuck you would store every form value, JS variable, DHTML element state, dynamically loaded resource and HTML5 local store content perfectly back to their original states. What do I know though, I'm just an idiot developer. Well, the tab has a state. Before navigation, store that state.
Upon returning to that page in the history, restore that state. Chrome certainly has enough RAM to do this.
A single GMail tab gives me 8 chrome.exe processes (32-bit, of course) and eats up half a gig of memory. In many cases, FF, PaleMoon, and IE DO restore form fields when navigating back and forth. I support this change. I've had multiple instances over the years where I'm filling out a complicated form, try to erase a couple characters by hitting the backspace key, and found myself going to previous pages and wiping out the work that I'd done.
Honestly, I don't use the 'Back' button enough to need a shortcut. Now if only Macs would stop using the two-finger trackpad swipe gesture as a shortcut for back/forward buttons. I know you can turn it off (and I do on any Mac I sit down at), but the two-fin. The use of the backspace button to move 'Back' in a browser is a holdover from the days of Netscape Navigator and its atrocious interface. Microsoft adopted it in I.E., and then all subsequent browsers adopted it for compatibility. Firefox has a configuration setting for what Backspace does.
Why shouldn't Chrime? More than once, I've accidentally 'clicked' outside a text area (particularly easy to do on a laptop trackpad) and then hit backspace, thinking I was still in a text entry box, obliterating everyth. I thought today's browser automatically remembered the contents of the text fields if you hit back and then go forward again (using the forward button, not clicking the link again)?? I mean, IE and FireFox remember the contents of text fields if I hit back (or backspace) and it goes back a page. Hit forward and boom, text I entered is still there. Granted, it's not a behaviour that works 100% because of the way some websites work (especially rich text fields), but it seems to work fairly well.
Doesn't Chrome remember it? There is an option for this in Firefox, although it is hidden in about:config browser.backspaceaction: 0: go back one page (the default on Windows) 1: scroll up (the default on linux before 2006-12-07) 2: do nothing (the default on linux after 2006-12-07) I like by backspace binding so on linux I change this. This should be the same for Chrome.
![Google Chrome Browser For Mac Turn Off Mouse Back Button Google Chrome Browser For Mac Turn Off Mouse Back Button](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Xe1e.png)
I don't remember losing form data because of this. The biggest cause of losing data is failed submissions (connection problem, website error, session expired.). In case it happens I have Lazarus which saved the day a couple of times. Instead of changing keybindings people are used to, form backup is what Chrome should do, so that you don't lose your data no matter what. An app (application) is a program that either does something useful or lets you do something useful with it. Are utilities applications?
Are media players? I've been using computers since the early 70s and I've never called a computer program an app. I never heard the word until smart phones were invented. Maybe some people used it, but I bet they were in the minority.
Quite a few apps for phones are nothing more than a custom interface to a server. I have one on my phone that simply opens the brow. Yes, those Republicans and their constant drive to change things and break with tradition.
Oh wait that's exactly the opposite of a typical Republican perspective. If you Americans have to crap on every discussion with this boring local politics, at least get your stupid stereotypes the right way (pun!). Anyway, I have never purposefully hit backspace intending to page back (I use gestures or click the back button). I have accidentally lost stuff by hitting backspace (especially in 'pseudo-textbox' type f. This one actually seems like a good design decision. On pc the backspace and delete buttons both exist and they work exactly as they should. Darned if I care what apple does.
On chrome I also see back, forward and refresh/stop just fine. However the problem with backspace going back is that if you are typing in a textarea and you hit backspace it deletes your text (which is what you want). However if you tab to another control that is not text editable and you hit backspace you have now gone back a page and lost what you where entering.
It violates all kinds of UI principles. Backspace to go back is just a bad UI and fixing it should definitely be done. There is no dumbing down involved. The physical tab key has meant 'move the output location to the next field' for a hundred years or so. The idea of a 'literal tab character' was always goofy - an ASCII legacy like form-feed, bell, ENQ etc. I don't want to tab key to type an actual 0x09 character any more than I want the PageDown key to type an actual 0x0C character, or the backspace key to type an actual 0x08 character. I'm not sure that's quite right.
The origin of tab keys is from typewriters where there were physical gears that controlled where the carriage stopped. When you pressed tab, the carriage would be moved to the next tab stop (wherever you set that). Tab is short for 'tabulate' because this functionality was primarily useful for tabular data-columns of numbers, etc.
So, similar in concept to 'next field' but different too. Me, I like tabs. I'm laying the blame at Microsoft's door. They also decided that the Enter key should submit a form as apparently tabbing to the submit button and.then. pressing Enter was really hard for the retards in the focus group. This causes even more issues than backspace as it is easy to have a partially completed form submitting when you didn't expect it to because (again) you weren't in a form input. Then the site grumbles at you for not filling in all the required fields.
Why in the hell would you hit Enter when you're not in a text field? Do you just randomly paw at the keys? Keep your barren hellscape of a keyboard away from my development work. Backspace and Delete are not the same thing. Home and End are indispensable. Modifiers don't help, because Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End are also indispensable, as are Ctrl+Shit+Home and Ctrl+Shit+End.
Every time I have to pick the mouse up precious sub-threads of my train of thought are at risk. I would happily give up my Insert key, but I'm sure there is somebody who is editing hex in a monospace text editor who would sooner gut you than giv.
Why not just delete the delete button from the keyboard? Many other 'meta-keys' have disappeared in order to dumb-down the keyboard. Keyboards used to have both backspace and delete, which did two slightly different things. Now my Macbook pro only has a delete button that acts like backspace (not delete), no home/end keys, and all sorts of other missing keys. So, just fucking delete the delete button too.
Just like the 'Forward' and 'Refresh' buttons in Firefox. Dumb everything down for the people who do nothing but watch videos on their computers. And before you say, 'Those keys were removed to keep the keyboards small for smaller laptops'. Ever hear of modifier keys like fcn, control, alt?
I'm not entirely sure I'm reading your message correctly, but on an Apple keyboard: Fn+Up = Page Up Fn+Down = Page Down Fn+Backspace (labeled as 'delete') = Del Fn+Left arrow = Home Fn+Right arrow = End Fn+Enter = Return (is it vice versa??) Fn+Esc = Break And just some other useful: Option+Up = cursor to beginning of line, or if at beginning of line, up one line Option+Down = cursor to end of line, or if at end of line, down one line Option+Left arrow = move cursor left one word Option+Right arrow = move cursor right. If by 'exploit' you mean forcing a whopping 1 more click or button tap to navigate away, then sure. In any reasonably modern browser the unload event is 'special' and the web page code is only able to initiate the prompt but cannot handle or subvert the user's choice in any way. You will also notice that in this prompt 'confirm' is always the focused choice so all you have to do is tap enter or space. I personally like backspace as a navigation hotkey and am not a fan of keyboards studded with m.
Just save the contents and put them back if the user presses forward. I thought only Firefox devs were a waste of oxygen, but it seems they were merely copying Chrome devs. There are two problems with this.
1) The Chrome team has actually studied how many people use backspace to navigate; and it's a really small number of users. So, for the vast majority of users, the old behavior is 100% unexpected, and requiring navigation 'forward' is at best irritating, at worst something that they don't know how to do (e.g. My parents don't even realize there is a 'forward' action). Why make something needlessly surprising, confusing, and frustrating for the majority of your users, when y.