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Delhi, NewDelhi, India
I am currently pursuing my Ph.D from IIT Delhi. I started blogging so that people don't face much of a hassle in finding solutions to problems that I've already faced and sorted out. Problems could be either hardware or software. Of late, it's becoming a hobby, especially after I received an e-mail from an anonymous reader from Germany who found one of my blog entries very useful.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Enable backspace to take you to the previous page in firefox

For a change, a small tip for people who use keyboard shortcuts for navigation in the web browser. I've been using this feature in IE and Safari. I recently noticed that this doesn't work by default in firefox (Ubuntu). To enable this feature, open a firefox window and type 'about:config' (without the quotes). Search for 'backspace' in the filter tab. The only entry for backspace will be 'browser.backspace_action'. Right click on it and modify the entry to '0' from the default value. There you go. Now, you can use backspace to go to the previous page/s you were viewing.