Firefox Backspaces Great Comments into Oblivion

[Eyelight]

I find as time marches on I like less and less to dig into a problem and go for the solution solo, so thought I would inquire of the collective.

I use Firefox when browsing and posting. Occasionally I decide to use the backspace key to erase/edit something and evidently do not have my cursor in the editor, so Firefox takes the backspace key press and jumps back to the last webpage. Over the last few weeks, I have wiped out several incredibly enlightening comments and posts to everyone's tragic loss.

Any Firefox guru's know how I can tell Firefox that I don't want to go back and to ignore the @#$% backspace key if the cursor ain't in the @#$% editor?

Pardon my symbolism.

 

[Browncoat]

I use Firefox when browsing and posting. Any Firefox guru's know how I can tell Firefox that I don't want to go back and to ignore the @#$% backspace key if the cursor ain't in the @#$% editor?

Yes, I have the perfect solution: Google Chrome

!@#$ Firefox. Honestly, Firefox has been crap for years. I was a diehard user until about 2011, when Firefox 4 was released. It just hasn't been the same since. At this point, I would use IE over Firefox...as much as even thinking that makes me want to wash my brain out with bleach.

 

[Browncoat]

Oh, and before you reply with several "Yeah but..." and "Firefox has..." and "But I've always..."

Just shush and let the adults talk. Try Chrome for a week. You won't go back.

If you're still a glutton for punishment, try this.

 

[Eyelight]

Oh, and before you reply with several "Yeah but..." and "Firefox has..." and "But I've always..."

Just shush and let the adults talk. Try Chrome for a week. You won't go back.

If you're still a glutton for punishment, try this.

Yeah but Google is Google.

Firefox has not Google.

But I've always tried to stay away from Google as much as possible.

Actually the Chrome launch button resides between the IE & Firefox icons on the taskbar, but Chrome seems to do more behind the scenes stuff than IE or Firefox

 

[Eyelight]

Yes, I have the perfect solution: Google Chrome (Where's the rolling on the floor smiley?)

!@#$ Firefox. Honestly, Firefox has been crap for years. I was a diehard user until about 2011 (ancient history), when Firefox 4 was released (I think they released a few updates since then). It just hasn't been the same since. (If you don't use it, how would you know? If you know, why do you use it?) At this point, I would use IE over Firefox...as much as even thinking that makes me want to wash my brain out with bleach.

All three have there points, and I use all three for different purposes. Firefox happens to be what I use for forums.

 

[Eyelight]

Oh, and before you reply with several "Yeah but..." and "Firefox has..." and "But I've always..."

Just shush and let the adults talk. Try Chrome for a week. You won't go back.

If you're still a glutton for punishment, try this.

Thanks for the link to the solution. Turns out that function was made to be more like IE, LOL. I reckon the ugly head of the Backspace stupidness I've only discovered in Firefox because that's what use to do most of my web typing.

 

[Browncoat]

I have many browsers on my PC, Firefox included. I'm just a nerd like that.

In my opinion, the browser was at its best back when it was just Mozilla (long, long time ago) and the days of Firefox 1.0 and 2.0. Since then, it's been on kind of a downward spiral, culminating with the catastrophe that was 4.0. I haven't used it regularly since.

It shouldn't shock you that I'm very anti-establishment. I didn't want to like Chrome, or Google's plethora of products. However, I now depend on most of them: Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chrome, and of course many of their web-based business products for my site. Google is the internet business, and Chrome integrates all of their stuff into one place. I don't have to worry about updates, or cross-platform issues. I can pick up my tablet right now and pick up right where I left off. Same bookmarks, same apps, same everything. It's all synced. I can't do that with Firefox.

 

[Horoscope Fish]

... Google is the internet business, and Chrome integrates all of their stuff into one place. I don't have to worry about updates, or cross-platform issues. I can pick up my tablet right now and pick up right where I left off. Same bookmarks, same apps, same everything. It's all synced. I can't do that with Firefox.

While I agree that's a good reason to use Chrome, it still doesn't explain what is so horribly, horribly wrong with Firefox. You DO know Firefox is currently at version 30.0, right? I mean, really, referencing FF v4.0? Shall we compare apples to, say... Apples perhaps?

I happen to use all three browsers (Chrome, FF and IE (sometimes my office requires I use Internet Exploder, it's not by choice)) and I find reasons to like/dislike them all, pretty much. That being said, Firefox has synch options that will synch everything (browser history, windows, tabs etc.) except your "Docs" which is a functionality they don't offer like Google does. Again, a good reason to use Google but that's all.

And you say you're "anti-establishment" but have (effectively) sold your soul to Google... Do you not see any sort of contradiction here? Not taking any "stabs" here, just genuinely curious...

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[WayneF]

I use Firefox when browsing and posting. Occasionally I decide to use the backspace key to erase/edit something and evidently do not have my cursor in the editor, so Firefox takes the backspace key press and jumps back to the last webpage. Over the last few weeks, I have wiped out several incredibly enlightening comments and posts to everyone's tragic loss.

I use Firefox, and would not have expected Backspace to return to previous page either, there are other ways for that. But it also seems reasonable to KNOW where your cursor is when you hit Backspace (since it is destructive). But I tried it, and if I have a compose box working, and cursor is elsewhere, the first Backspace pops a box "Are you sure? your data will not be saved." Second time, it doesn't pause( version 30.0). So I cannot find a problem there.

You can disable that action.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/924490
I have not tried it, don't know if it totally disables the key, or just this browsing action.

The best thing about Firefox is the addons. I don't use many, but the best one is ReminderFox, a great way to remember all appointments. There are other reminders, but they have to be running. My Firefox is always running.

 

[Eyelight]

I use Firefox, and would not have expected Backspace to return to previous page either, there are other ways for that. But it also seems reasonable to KNOW where your cursor is when you hit Backspace (since it is destructive). But I tried it, and if I have a compose box working, and cursor is elsewhere, the first Backspace pops a box "Are you sure? your data will not be saved." Second time, it doesn't pause( version 30.0). So I cannot find a problem there.

You can disable that action.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/924490
I have not tried it, don't know if it totally disables the key, or just this browsing action.

The best thing about Firefox is the addons. I don't use many, but the best one is ReminderFox, a great way to remember all appointments. There are other reminders, but they have to be running. My Firefox is always running.

I'm running Firefox 30 as well. I never had a pop-up, and a couple times hit the backspace 2-3 times real quick and went back 2-3 pages. I'm using a laptop and sometimes the cursor position moves when one of my many thumbs brushes the mouse pad, so that may have compounded the issue.

I did disable the backspace/browser-back function in the config file and it just disables the browsing action.

 

[480sparky]

It don't matter what you use. IE, FF, Chrome, a friggin' morse code key..... you're going to have an issue with each one of them.

Period.

 

[Eyelight]

a friggin' morse code key......

In a real way it all translates to dots and dashes, or in this case ones and zeros.

 

[Browncoat]

And you say you're "anti-establishment" but have (effectively) sold your soul to Google... Do you not see any sort of contradiction here? Not taking any "stabs" here, just genuinely curious...

Oh yes, definitely. I was trying to make a point about being so, but then using The Man's products when it comes to the web LOL. And yes, I'm aware Firefox is on version 30. That's kind of a lot, don't you think? Going from 4 to 30 in just a few years? I'm not alone at ditching it with the 4.0 update. That was the nail in the coffin for a lot of users. Firefox used to be about a low taxing, streamlined browser with extensions that provided customization. It was the antithesis of IE, which was bloated and slow. Sadly, that's exactly what Firefox has become. It hangs and crashes and uses up way too much memory.

But, to each his own.

 

[Horoscope Fish]

... Firefox used to be about a low taxing, streamlined browser with extensions that provided customization. It was the antithesis of IE, which was bloated and slow. Sadly, that's exactly what Firefox has become. It hangs and crashes and uses up way too much memory.

Ummm... No.

Right this second I have both Chrome (v35.0.xxx) and Firefox (v30.0) browsers running, each have five tabs open.

Chrome is using about ~385KB of memory. Firefox is using about ~390K of memory.

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[Browncoat]

Your mileage may vary, Fish. But, since you brought it up...Chrome is still using less memory than Firefox.

 

[Horoscope Fish]

Your mileage may vary, Fish. But, since you brought it up...Chrome is still using less memory than Firefox.

You said FF is "bloated" but you don't say how much or in comparison to what. You say it "hangs and crashes and uses up way too much memory" but you don't say how often it crashes or hangs or how much memory it uses. I provide concrete numbers and lets face it, if 390K is, "way too much memory" so is 385K.

I truly don't care what browser anyone uses, or doesn't use, or for what reason(s). What I do mind is blindly parroting misinformation, passed off as fact, to support one's decision.

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[Eyelight]

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[Browncoat]

Alrighty then. If it's facts you want:

Chrome: 346,180K. One tab, 10 extensions.
Firefox: 410,888K. One tab, 6 extensions.

That's roughly a 16% increase in memory draw, with fewer extensions. Now, perhaps "bloated" is subjective, but it would not be difficult to push Firefox over 500K with equivalent extensions. As far as crashes and/or hang-ups, I lack proper accredited documentation to satisfy your needs. I will hold onto logs in the future. Personal experience will have to suffice for now.

As I mentioned, I stopped regularly using Firefox eons ago. It's problems were well documented. Perhaps it's better now, I don't know. Firefox 22 is the latest version I have bothered to get.