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 ...

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 ...

The Backspace key is perhaps the most popular and widely used key on your keyboard. It is considered to be the most vital key on your keyboard. However, there are instance when issues on your keyboard ...

You probably didn't know it but Google Chrome users have been fiercely divided over the function of the backspace key. Now Google is looking to make peace with a new Chrome extension. Before we get to ...

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 ...

Google has received a lot of feedback about its decision to switch the keyboard shortcut for going back in Chrome -- from the backspace key to alt + the left arrow key -- starting in Chrome 52, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows PCs have two distinct keys for deleting text in different directions – delete and backspace. But on some Macs, there’s no sign of anything called “delete”. What gives? Deleting to the left of ...

Even though the “do you want to leave this page?” messages in most browsers might be enough to counter the annoyance of hitting backspace and losing a bunch of form content you just finished inputting ...