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BackspaceMeansBackspace - 1.2

by playswithlife
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Prevents the Backspace key from triggering the browser Back action.

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BackspaceMeansBackspace

A sensible extension for Google Chrome.
Prevents the Backspace key from triggering the browser Back action.

Change Log:

Renamed from ChromeWithoutBackspace to BackspaceMeansBackspace.

Older Versions

  1. Version 1.1
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    Developer Builds

    Prevents the Backspace key from triggering the browser Back action.

    Change Log:

    None

Reviews

  1. ben2talk says:
    October 18, 2009 at 8:08 am

    I don’t understand – if I spelllll something wrong, I press backspace and it deletes the previous character.

    What would I want to install this extension for? I’m using Chromium and Chrome – and they both function normally.

    Is someone crazy? Is it me?

  2. playswithlife says:
    October 18, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Press backspace when you’re not in a textbox – Chrome will go BACK to the previous page. Occasionally (I think this is a bug), it will do this when I’m IN a textbox. Losing everything I was typing.

  3. Subhash says:
    October 19, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    greatly desired extension – thanks for making it and removing one of the greatest annoyances ever. Will be checking how much memory it takes up vis a vis other extensions since I have become a little paranoid after loading firefox with the bare minimum of required extensions.

    ben2talk – have a question then simply ask. Don’t be a moron in doing so.

  4. playswithlife says:
    October 20, 2009 at 5:02 am

    You’re welcome – and thanks! I’m guessing the memory usage is tiny, as it’s only one line of Javascript. I just checked the character count – total 163 characters.

  5. cool! says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Oops, I made a html-comment :)

    This is a good Idea. For switching through the history there’s [ALT + left] and [ALT + rirght]. Backspace is for deleting letters left off the cursor. Thanks for this extension!

  6. Rich says:
    November 2, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Is there a way to do this by just manipulating a configuration file?

  7. playswithlife says:
    November 3, 2009 at 5:26 am

    >Is there a way to do this by just manipulating a configuration file?

    Unfortunately, so far as I know not in Chrome. I don’t know about any config file for Chrome at all. Maybe in a later release that will become possible. Firefox does have a config file that lets you turn this off, I’ve heard.

  8. Bapabooiee says:
    November 3, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Well, it does exactly what it says on the tin, and it just works; hate having the Backspace key mapped to the Back function.

  9. Bapabooiee says:
    November 20, 2009 at 12:32 am

    Now, going-back on what I said about it, it doesn’t work. I was on a forum just now, typing-up a big, juicy reply, and right before I was gonna hit Submit, I got taken all the way back to the New Tab page.

    God dammit, I hate that key =|

  10. playswithlife says:
    November 20, 2009 at 2:18 am

    @ Bapabooiee – Gah! Really?!

    Any idea what might have been different on that site?

    Was the cursor in the textbox when you hit Backspace, or was the focus on some other element?

    I’ve seen one situation where it doesn’t work, too. I have an idea of how to make it more strict for a next version.

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