It is time to unlink the “Backspace” – Browser Back shortcut (2012)
Wouldn&#x27;t something like an &quot;This page contains unsubmitted form input. Are you sure you want to leave?&quot;, with maybe a configuration option to disable it, be far better than breaking a long-established and extremely useful keyboard shortcut? Instead the developers chose the easy way out, to pander to users who are apparently too stupid to notice that the focus is somewhere other than the text field they&#x27;re entering into. Why not also remove the ability for spacebar&#x2F;Enter to navigate to the currently focused link (or have they removed that already)? If you start blindly pressing keys on a page without looking, <i>it&#x27;s your own damn fault</i>.<p>In any case, this screenshot of Opera&#x27;s keyboard shortcut configuration shows just how far browser configurability has regressed:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ghacks.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;keyboard-setup.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ghacks.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;keyboard-se...</a>