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Backspace as browser back shortcut
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2014–2016), in 3 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Backspace goes back by accident when input loses focus, and focus styling is hard to see2016-08-21
- Pressing Backspace unexpectedly navigates back and can lose typed form data2016-08-21
- Accidentally navigates away from pages when space, enter or backspace is pressed in the wrong context2016-08-21
- Backspace unexpectedly navigates back or loses focus when a text field is not clearly focused2016-08-21
- Pressing Backspace in a form unexpectedly navigates back and loses typed data2016-08-21
- Backspace unexpectedly navigates back and loses typed text when cursor is not in a text box2016-08-20
- Accidental backspace tap reloads app and loses place, taking minutes to recover2016-08-20
- Pressing Backspace while focus is elsewhere unexpectedly navigates away, losing typed input2016-08-20
- Backspace unexpectedly navigates back, losing state in web apps when no text field is focused2016-05-19
- Backspace navigates to previous page when text field is not actually focused2016-05-19
- Backspace unexpectedly navigates to the previous page instead of deleting text2014-03-22
- Backspace unexpectedly navigates back a page, causing users to lose unsaved data2014-03-22