Pressing backspace when editing text on Firefox go to previous page

[fabriziobertocci]

Well as I said on the title, instead of deleting the last typed character, when you press backspace on Firefox, it goes back to the previous page. Chrome works fine. Tested on Firefox 93.0 on Linux Mint 20.2

[Akiyamka]

Firefox 95.0.2 on Fedora 34 - works just fine

[fabriziobertocci]

ah... weird, It must be some interaction with the window manager then. I just tested again on my machine, problem is still there: pressing backspace, it deletes one character but then the browser go back to the previous page. Firefox 95.0.1, Linux Mint 20.2

[Semnodime]

The issue can be reproduced using this configuration: https://asciiflow.com/ on Firefox 96.0+linuxmint1+una (without any addons) / Linux Mint 20.3 (Una):

Pressing backspace navigates to the previously visited site.

[Mxrcon]

I'm using firefox 99+linuxmint1+una on linux Mint 20.3 and still able to reproduce this error. Sadly, this makes the usage really hard.

[Akiyamka]

ah... weird, It must be some interaction with the window manager then. I just tested again on my machine, problem is still there: pressing backspace, it deletes one character but then the browser go back to the previous page. Firefox 95.0.1, Linux Mint 20.2

My system stack: DE: GNOME WM: Mutter X11

[bellgab]

Hi! Go to about:config page (carefully) Set the browser.backspace_action value to 2! restart. This worked for me.

[J0sephDavis]

I am also having this issue. Mozilla Firefox 120.0.1 OS: Linux Mint 20.3 x86_64 DE: Cinnamon WM: Mutter

[lewish]

I've pushed a potential fix, but as I can't actually reproduce this myself, could someone encountering it possibly confirm if this is still an issue? Please re-open if you are still seeing it!

[fabriziobertocci]

I just tested on Firefox 123.0 on Linux Mint 21.2 and it works! Big thanks!!!