Comment 14 for bug 60995

Jan Claeys wrote:
> @ Arwyn Hainsworth Firefox doesn't go back to the previous page if
> you press backspace while filling out a form, so there is no data
> loss.
>

to reproduce data loss:
1. start filling out a form
2. click somewhere outside the form (one can always miss a form field
while trying to click on it)
3. (accidentally) press Backspace (as if you were gonna delete a
character in the -missed- form field)
4. unless data was kept in the memory (try going forward, weirdly enough
that's not supported by all forms), oopsie ;)

> @ Toby Smithe This is not only about Windows users, but also about
> those users that have been using Ubuntu for 2 years now (or linux
> even longer), and suddenly it starts doing weird things.
>

I see your point. I've been using linux now for about 1,5 years (maybe
less). I still think this backspace bug is a feature (hehe). I saw a
comment that demonstrated this extremely well in one of the bug reports
(someone was citing an example of data loss, where his/her customer was
trying to delete part of a form but instead lost data in the form), but
I can't find it now. that was the comment that changed my mind. before
reading that comment, I strongly objected this pageup thing as well.
sounds completely weird at first...

Note that I don't know about the usability of the new shortcuts (is it
easy to use them with one hand? etc)

> And saying that shortcuts are not meant for [used by] average users is
> denigrating.

I agree.