Comment 108 for bug 60995

What if Volvo changed their car design so that you would switch gears with the steering wheel? Sorry, but that's how #&)#"/¤&/#¤ this is. Shortcut keys like this one is a de facto standard.

Arguments about old time unix users is void because A) on Ubuntu there is a lot more "new linux users" these days compared to the number of "old time unix users", and consider also B) in some ancient time some people used CTRL-Y and CTRL-V for page down/up. But guess what? More or less every single keyboard ships with a dedicated button that is labeled "PAGE UP", maybe it's time to evolve and start to use it? For the ultra hardcore people, I suggest "apt-get install old_unix_style_keybinding".

Arguments about "data loss" is void because: A) surf to google.com, B) type in some query, C) press the normal GUI back button in the toolbar, D) data lost. E) big deal get over it.

Arguments about "platform consistency" is void because: A) start the GNOME filemanager, B) scroll down to the last item and select it, C) press BACKSPACE and notice that it does not mean page up.

On a personal level; for now I'll go with the about:config hack, but give me more of these kinds of bugs and then it's bye bye new distro for me. I mean a missing sound driver is one thing because I know everyone *wants* to fix it (albeit it might take a long time). But with bugs like this one are big time showstoppers.

I hope that people can agree on a sensible fix to this bug so that ubuntu can continue to grow.