Chrome: In the newest version of Chrome, Google changed the backspace key’s behavior so it no longer works as a keyboard shortcut to go back a page. Go Back with Backspace is a Google developed ...

Google has received a lot of feedback about its decision to switch the keyboard shortcut for going back in Chrome -- from the backspace key to alt + the left arrow key -- starting in Chrome 52, which ...

Google looks set to abolish a feature that allows users to navigate to the previous page by hitting the backspace key, after complaints piled up against the option. However, it would seem that a small ...

If you’ve ever been filling out a form online and your slippery fingers accidentally hit the backspace key, you know the quiet rage that comes when Chrome takes that backspace key to mean you want to ...

Power users love shortcuts. Especially when managing multiple operations across several apps, keyboards allow quick access to specific actions with handy combinations of buttons, and some have become ...

It's happened to many of us: you're filling out a long form and hit the backspace thinking you'll delete a character but actually navigate back and lose all your work. Google wants to save you the ...

11:24, Fri, Aug 19, 2016 Updated: 11:48, Fri, Aug 19, 2016 Google recently made a monumental change to the way you navigate around the world wide web. Within the recently-launched 52nd iteration of ...

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It's happened to the best of us - there you are calmly filling a form on the internet when you press backspace to remove some data... and the entire site returns to the previous page! Mon, 23 May, ...

Mozilla developers plan to remove support for using the Backspace key as a Back button inside Firefox. The change is currently active in the Firefox Nightly version and is expected to go live in ...

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