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 ...

Google looks set to abolish a feature that allows users to navigate to the previous page by hitting the backspace key, after complaints piled up against the option. However, it would seem that a small ...

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 ...

It's happened to many of us: you're filling out a long form and hit the backspace thinking you'll delete a character but actually navigate back and lose all your work. Google wants to save you the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Google announced earlier this year that it would be removing the backspace navigation shortcut in Chrome, two camps quickly developed - those in favor of the move and those vehemently against it.

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 ...

If you press the backspace key 28 times on a locked-down Linux machine you want to access, a Grub2 bootloader flaw will allow you to break through password protection and wreck havoc in the system.