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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.
11. onlineteacher says:

    September 25, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    I’ve wanted to use Chrome for sometime, but too many features of it caused problems with Desire2Learn, the Learning Management System (LMS) my company uses. With the recent update of Chrome, some of these features were improved, but now I’m finding just how frequently I sometimes hit backspace while not in a textbox, causing me to lose what I’ve typed. I thought this extension would fix the problem, and it does seem to work for some sites, but within the Desire2Learn LMS, backspace still seems to mean back on the browser, on most of the pages where this is most potentially frustrating.
12. Gino says:

    October 29, 2010 at 2:38 am

    Thank you so much man. This app could be called “Anti-Confirm Form Resubmission”. Because thats one of the main reason I use this.
13. Paula Kelley says:

    October 30, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    I hate this feature too. Now I have to take an extra step to erase something. This is like training an old dog to do something. Been typing for years and used the backspace key. Now if I forget I lose everything I wrote. I curse whoever thought of this. It is stupid. What were they thinking?
14. drew says:

    November 22, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    THANK YOU this has pissed me off so many times all better now
15. Greekgeek says:

    November 29, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    This is half of what I need! The other half is to have command (cntrl on PC) or something to do forward and back on Chome. It’s a really useful shortcut. That’s just a really dumb key to stick it on.
16. VipeR says:

    December 2, 2010 at 6:02 am

    Extension don’t work with jquery pop-ups
17. akatsuki says:

    December 7, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    Any chance of making this mac compatible? Doesn’t seem to work on Chrome Mac.
18. Ken says:

    December 14, 2010 at 5:57 am

    Does what it is supposed to do , thanks author for making this
19. ThatLunaticTouhouGuy says:

    December 18, 2010 at 1:12 am

    This is the best extension ever.
    I was filled with rage and a burning lust of destruction and murdering as ‘it’ happened to me.
    But with a simple google search I found your extension, and it felt so great that I nearly cried of joy.
    (Please understand that I’m slightly exaggerating here…)
20. playswithlife says:

    December 20, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    Thanks for the notes, everyone. I’ll look at the problems when I get a chance.

    @onlineteacher – Are there any public Desire2Learn sites online where I could reproduce the problem you saw?

    @VipeR – Could you point me at a website with a jQuery popup where the extension doesn’t work?

    @akatsuki – I’ll give it a shot! I’ll have to find out what’s different in the Mac Chrome.
21. praina says:

    October 3, 2011 at 8:52 am

    Thank you so much….I had just lost a long Facebook post and decided that enough was enough, when I found this extension. It works most of the time, though the times when it doesn’t are still ****ing annoying,
22. BenM says:

    October 15, 2011 at 2:05 am

    Any chance of a similar extension to stop the space bar scrolling the web page?
23. Logan says:

    October 25, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Thanks so much for writing this! I can’t express how much I loathe the backspace key being used to navigate backwards. It’s been the cause of so much lost typing I don’t even want to think about it.
24. Greg says:

    November 14, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    Doesn’t seem to function on any “https” sites. Or maybe the problem is similar to this one: http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/a152e8fbcd8e01ff?pli=1. Am I alone here? Anyway, I really appreciate your work despite this drawback. If you know of a workaround I would be thrilled. Thanks.
25. Mapping the backspace key to the browser’s “Back” button has got to be one of the worst decisions in the history of software. While it’s easy to fix in Firefox, things are a bit trickier in Chrome. This BackspaceMeansBackspace pl says:

    December 24, 2011 at 5:25 am

    [...] of software. While it’s easy to fix in Firefox, things are a bit trickier in Chrome. This BackspaceMeansBackspace plug-in takes care of things nicely.   Somewhat ironically, it’s also very hard to find this [...]
26. Rich says:

    January 2, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    I just re-installed Chrome, and this was the first extension I added. It is essential on laptops, where it is easy to accidentally move focus out of a text box. Though I normally forget it is there (perhaps because I can), BackspaceMeansBackspace is by far my favourite.
27. Bill says:

    January 4, 2012 at 8:53 am

    Thanks so much!!! I was seconds away from uninstalling Chrome after, for the tenth time this week, getting shuffled back a page while commenting in a text box after hitting the Backspace key and losing everything! I can’t believe this isn’t basic, out-of-the-box functionality!
28. playswithlife says:

    January 4, 2012 at 9:05 am

    Bill – I totally agree!
29. Sara says:

    January 6, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    Thank you thank you thank you!!! Now I won’t have to worry about losing all of my typing if I accidentally click out of a form. You are a hero!