Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #60995
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 60995

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In , Bugzilla+mozilla (bugzilla+mozilla) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

This is a request to reverse Bug #325541

On Linux, as with all other platforms, the backspace key should map to "Go back one page", NOT Page Up, as there is already a "Page Up" key not more than 4 cm away from it.

It makes no sense to change a key-mapping so that there are two keys on the keyboard with the same function. It's not intuitive and makes no sense.

Now that the browser.backspace_action pref exists, any Linux vendors that wish to customise their Firefox packages to change the default behavior are free to do so.

Linux users please vote for this bug if you agree.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press backspace key
Actual Results:
Browser pages up one screen

Expected Results:
Browser navigates to previous page in browser history