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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Canary version of Edge is bringing back the ability to navigate between previous and next pages using the backspace key via a hidden flag. The feature was removed from Chrome in 2016. Microsoft’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're anything like me, you make good use of the Backspace key. But look where it is—way up on the upper righthand corner, dragging your hand away from the action with every inevitable mistake.

Hitting a key over and over again actually works for once. Two security researchers in Spain recently uncovered a strange bug that will let you into most Linux machines just by hitting the backspace ...