Fucking Windows taking away my fucking keyboard shortcuts. Backspace no longer makes my browser go back a page, and the alternative shortcut doesn't work.
Thanks Obama.
Yeah, Chrome devs disabled it.
Still works on Firefox
The reason we're making this change is that users regularly lose data because they hit the backspace button thinking that a form field is focused. After years of this issue, we realize we're not going to have a better way to solve that problem.
What users? Idiot users. Punish the people who adapt to a problem by changing their fucking behaviour instead of blaming someone else. I don't even know why I'm so furious about this.
Looks like I'll be giving Safari a try. Try that for a change in behaviour.
I would not consider myself an idiot, yet that happens to me all the time. In what way is that punishing you? You lose how many seconds to move the mouse and click the back button? Whereas people who accidentally hit that key and go back a page (granted, usually it isn't lost if you go forward again immediately) tend to lose how much time?
Then again, I never really use shortcuts anyway. *shrug*
'Tis my most used keyboard shortcut. I may only lose a few seconds per effort, but that effort is likely to occur multiple times per browsing session.
It was also 2am, I may have over-reacted
but I didn't because it's a stupid decision. There are multiple alternative (alright, two other) delete keys on a keyboard, and you could also highlight whatever you want to go away.
Backspace was the quickest shortcut to go back a page, particularly since I use the mouse with my left hand. As OW said, making it an option to turn it off would've appeased both sides.
Yes I know it's not a big deal, but it also totally is a big deal.