David Jenkins
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 posted on 18/7/12 at 02:24 PM |
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Backspace in latest Firefox?
I hate automatic software updates...
The Firefox browser on my Linux box has just had an upgrade to 14.0.1. This is all well and good, most is still working, but previously I could use
the backspace key to go back a page - not any longer. This is a real PITA when you're skipping back and forth on a forum. Some comedian on a
Linux forum said "what's wrong with Alt-left_arrow?" when answering a similar question - well, that takes 2 fingers, one on each
hand, whereas it used to take 1 finger, 1 hand. Doesn't sound much, but it's annoying after a while.
So my question is - is there some configuration item I can change in FF that would allow me to work the old way? In about:config, for example?
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 18/7/12 at 02:35 PM |
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Not that I know of. I personally hate the backspace key used to go back, used in haste it can waste entire paragraphs of entered data/text and I find
it a bit irritating!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 18/7/12 at 02:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coyoteboy
Not that I know of. I personally hate the backspace key used to go back, used in haste it can waste entire paragraphs of entered data/text and I find
it a bit irritating!
Ever tried using the Lazarus data recovery add-on? It's saved me a lot of work in the past.
[Edited on 18/7/12 by David Jenkins]
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HowardB
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| posted on 18/7/12 at 03:09 PM |
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I didn't know about the <ALT>arrow, learn something new every day,.. Now I will use that instead of looking for the back space, or the
clickable buttons
thanks
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again and goes zoom)
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britishtrident
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| posted on 18/7/12 at 03:24 PM |
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Lazerus is brilliant
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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Pdlewis
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| posted on 18/7/12 at 04:16 PM |
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still works on FF on my machine 14.0.1
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Updated 05/02/2009
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britishtrident
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| posted on 18/7/12 at 06:21 PM |
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These days I find I am using Chrome as much as Firefox I am finding nigggling issues with latest versions of Firefox. I suspect a lot of the
Firefox developers are now writing Android apps.
I am falling out of love with the Mint Linux also I found many issues with version 13 and went back to version 11 when I discovered it had
DuckDickGo search engine deeply embedded in the Mint version of Firefox.
I am very deeply suspicious of DuckDuckGo although a lot of Google haters on the net think it is white knight come to the rescue I find the search
results distorted and it has a faint wiff of MS Bing surrounding it.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/7/12 at 08:18 AM |
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I've just got an email from Mattijs Riekerk (I don't know if he's a regular on here) that gave me the pointer I needed to fix this
issue:
If you type about:config into the FF address bar you'll get all of the internal settings - you might have to get past a "do you
really want to do this?" page first - and search for
browser.backspace_action
Mine was set to a value of 2. If you click on the name you can change the value to 0, which restores the old functionality.
You can a bit more information in this MozillaZine instruction
Thanks Mattijs, I'm happy again!
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