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 ...

Obviously it still erases the character to the left of your cursor. But when you’re viewing folders in Windows Explorer, Backspace no longer moves you “up” a folder in the hierarchy like it did in ...

Mozilla Firefox is disabling the browser's backspace key to prevent users from accidentally losing data typed into forms. In 2014, Google removed the ability to go back to a previous page by using the ...

Microsoft’s Edge Canary is letting users enable an experimental flag that brings the ability to navigate to the previous and next pages using the backspace and shift+backspace key combination, ...

Windows PCs have two distinct keys for deleting text in different directions – delete and backspace. But on some Macs, there’s no sign of anything called “delete”. What gives? Deleting to the left of ...

In VIM type ":set bs=eol,indent,start" to get the backspace key to work like you probably expect it to. To make it permanent so you don't have to type it in everytime, put that line (without the colon ...