> Aaron, Peter Lairo, the rest of you who's arguing to get this feature 
> removed: I wish you the best of luck. I, however, feel like I'm 
> wasting my time here, so I'll stop now and do something else. Maybe I 
> should start whining about Backspace being mapped to Back on Win32 
> instead - unlike this, it does affect me directly, and it's annoying 
> like hell! (Now, what can those of us who thoroughly hate *that* 
> feature do to get it removed?)
>
I don't use Windows, but I agree: I personally believe that Backspace is 
the wrong key to map to Back -- it violates all UI rules of thumb I know 
(e.g., don't overload destructive gestures with other meanings, whether 
destructive in a different way [as Back can be]).  I recommend you 
petition in mozilla.ui, cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] at least, for some 
usability data to justify this change.  There very likely have not been 
any usability studies, and lacking real data, I think Mozilla should do 
what Netscape 4.x did in this case -- IIRC, 4.x on Windows used Alt-< as 
the shortcut for Back.

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