Chrome on my MacBook Pro was automatically updated this morning, after which I noticed that the backspace key no longer worked to go back a page. Apparently this was implemented a little while ago but didn't manifest itself on my machine until today. This matches the default behavior on Linux, which I detest, since I use backspace to return to a previous page constantly.
After some searching, I discovered that Google made the change to prevent people from accidentally deleting data in a form. Initially, there was no way to reenable the backspace key.
However, enough people bitched about the change to get Google to create an extension to restore the previous behaving. You can get it here.
A plea to developers: Please do not change the behavior of your program's user interface without giving the end user a choice.
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