Update on backspace

When I was filling out the online forms to buy my greenday tickets yesterday, I noticed the site would suddenly go back to the beginning every few seconds for some reason. I couldn’t work out why, but it got very frustrating. I was being as quick as possible, yet I thought the site was timing out on me. This situation repeated several times, and I was getting quite angry. And then I realised: it was going back every time I hit the backspace/delete button. Oh the irony! After I was so pleased with myself for getting back the ability to use backspace to go back on chrome, the very issue google were trying to resolve by disabling that function cropped up.

Now I understand why they changed it. Oh well – I got there in the end, after I realised what was going on. I just won’t be so quick to dismiss such ‘fixes’ in the future.

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