Comments on: BackspaceMeansBackspace

By: TripleFFF

TripleFFF — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:10:51 +0000

@BenM – [Any chance of a similar extension to stop the space bar scrolling the web page?]

Is THAT what causes that! Gah chrome is such a pain!

Thanks so much for this helpful extension, this drives me nuts!

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:51:28 +0000

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!

By: playswithlife

playswithlife — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:05:01 +0000

Bill – I totally agree!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:53:51 +0000

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!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:04:38 +0000

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.

By: 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

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:25:23 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:52:52 +0000

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.

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:39:12 +0000

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.

By: BenM

BenM — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:05:14 +0000

Any chance of a similar extension to stop the space bar scrolling the web page?

By: praina

praina — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:52:43 +0000

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,