Disable backspace key on Firefox
Firefox 2 has an annoying new "feature" in that if you hit the backspace key, it acts as if you hit the back button on the browser. While I can imagine cases in which this would be useful, in practice it turns out to be really annoying. Often, when I go to the address bar to edit a URL and I start hitting the back key, if I failed to get the cursor in the address bar correctly, I am now taken back several pages in my browsing history. Man I hate this.
Luckily, this behavior can be modified. Here's how:
1 - In the address bar type: about:config.
2 - Scroll down to the entry called browser.backspace_action.
3 - Double-click on this row and it will pop up a dialog box asking you to enter a value. The current value will be 0, change it to be 2 then click OK.
That's all there is to it
Luckily, this behavior can be modified. Here's how:
1 - In the address bar type: about:config.
2 - Scroll down to the entry called browser.backspace_action.
3 - Double-click on this row and it will pop up a dialog box asking you to enter a value. The current value will be 0, change it to be 2 then click OK.
That's all there is to it
| Rating: | 100% positive, 17 total Votes |
| Categories: | browsers firefox |
| Added: | on May 15, 2007 at 1:15 pm |
| Added By: | an anonymous user |
