Does anyone use backspace navigation anymore?

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		Does anyone use backspace navigation anymore?
		1 point by stnvh 15 minutes ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

		It seems deeply ingrained to me that I can hit the backspace key to navigate to the prior page, maybe something from the "older web". I notice this recently when using a website like github, presented with a "Code view is read-only." when simpy trying to navigate the web after visiting a reference page. Am I alone here?

p_ing 1 minute ago | [–]

There are eight billion people on this planet... surely your usage of backspace is not unique.

FWIW this does not work on Firefox for macOS by default. One has to set browser.backspace_action to 0. Looks like FF for Windows is the same way.

squeegee_scream 11 minutes ago | | [–]

I’m not familiar with that and I’ve been a heavy Internet user since the mid 90s, first on Windows, then Linux starting in 2007, then macOS starting in 2012

rendx 10 minutes ago | [–]

I do. I do also use the touchpad back gesture, depending on where my hands are.

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