{"id":1474,"date":"2010-10-14T20:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2010-10-14T21:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:25:15","slug":"how-to-disable-backspace-key-on-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/14\/how-to-disable-backspace-key-on-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to disable Backspace is Go Back in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I personally find the Firefox keyword shortcut feature that hitting &#8220;backspace&#8221; takes you to the previous page.<\/p>\n<p>At times my mouse pointer gets out of focus (hey! it&#8217;s the multi-tasking age!) from the text area and when I hit backspace, it tames me away from the page along with everything I wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, you can easily disable the backspace keyboard shortcut on Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>To disable the backspace button taking you to browser back or previous page function:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; In the address bar type: <strong>about:config<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Scroll down to the entry called <strong>browser.backspace_action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Double-click on this row and it will pop up a dialog box asking you to enter a value. The current value will be 0, change it to be <strong>2<\/strong> then click <strong>OK<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I personally find the Firefox keyword shortcut feature that hitting &#8220;backspace&#8221; takes you to the previous page. At times my mouse pointer gets out of focus (hey! it&#8217;s the multi-tasking age!) from the text area and when I hit backspace, it tames me away from the page along with everything I wrote. However, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","category-tutorials","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}