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Retrieving Lost Text Accidentally Deleted When Using Back Space Key

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Spent hour writing comment. Meant to use backspace to backspace but it went to prior page. Lost all that was written. Why not redesign FF so that this never happens to anyone again. Let it be able to go forward to EXACTLY where you were in the text entry field with text intact. Please and thankyou!

Spent hour writing comment. Meant to use backspace to backspace but it went to prior page. Lost all that was written. Why not redesign FF so that this never happens to anyone again. Let it be able to go forward to EXACTLY where you were in the text entry field with text intact. Please and thankyou!

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cor-el
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You can set the pref http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.backspace_action to 2 on the about:config page. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page. --- DisableBackspaceNavigation: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1694/