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Bug 337300 - Go back to previous page on "Backspace"
Go back to previous page on "Backspace"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169828
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Interface
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-05 03:45 UTC by Alan Siu-Lung Tam
Modified: 2006-04-09 19:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Alan Siu-Lung Tam 2006-04-05 03:45:40 UTC 
IIRC, I have been using this during the days of Internet Explorer. I think
"backspace" should go to previous page, just as Alt-Left does.

Other information:
Comment 1 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2006-04-09 19:51:18 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report! However this issue was already filed in the database
previously.

The reason that Epiphany doesn't use Backspace to go back, is that Backspace has
a different meaning in html forms. In cases where you want to delete the
previous character in a form, but the user doesn't notice the form isn't
focused, you could go one page back and thereby lose information or risk
submitting the same information twice. Especially for financial transactions
etc. you don't want this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169828 ***