[jr2]

Official Chrome extension here.

Discussion as to why this is policy and not a bug (TLDR: too many people losing form data on loss of focus + backspace) here.

[Phantom Hoover]

Thanks jr2, that was a real nostalgic trip down memory lane to several months ago to when this was actually news.

[Mammothtank]

Wait you could go back using Backspace? Either I forgot it or never knew I could.

[jr2]

Thanks jr2, that was a real nostalgic trip down memory lane to several months ago to when this was actually news.

Quoted for extra sauce.

[Hades]

Are you suggesting that his comment frustrated you to the point of adding unnecessary sauce to a dish of pasta? I'm not sure what you're trying to say otherwise

[Hades]

If you meant putting extra mayo on a hamburger then that is a great warcrime. Mayo on burgers is objectively and morally wrong.

[LaineyBugsDaddy]

Personally, I say who cares? Backspace to go back to the previous page has long been a thorn in my side. It still won't make me switch back to Chrome, though.

[Dragon]

Good riddance. All it takes is a careless click unfocusing the text field you're currently editing. You keep typing, hit backspace, BAM. A hour of carefully thought-out arguments, well-researched opinions and witty comments down the drain. I've quit a few discussions on this very forum just because of this (discussions that involve post this long also tend to progress surprisingly quickly and are easy to lose track of. And I don't have patience to write two such replies in quick succession). Now, if they implemented a feature to keep the browser from losing text for any reason, then I might consider Chromium and all related browsers not to be pieces of crap anymore.

[jr2]

Good riddance. All it takes is a careless click unfocusing the text field you're currently editing. You keep typing, hit backspace, BAM. A hour of carefully thought-out arguments, well-researched opinions and witty comments down the drain. I've quit a few discussions on this very forum just because of this (discussions that involve post this long also tend to progress surprisingly quickly and are easy to lose track of. And I don't have patience to write two such replies in quick succession). Now, if they implemented a feature to keep the browser from losing text for any reason, then I might consider Chromium and all related browsers not to be pieces of crap anymore.

Hmm... let's test this. 

* jr2 presses backspace after clicking outside of the reply area

* jr2 clicks the forward button.

Yup.  Just as I thought.  No data loss.

Which means that there's something missing for some sites (not sure if it's the browser's fault or the site's fault; I know what you mean; sometimes your input gets lost in electronic purgatory somewhere.  (I noticed this a lot more with IE if / when I used it [like at work]).

[Buff Skeleton]

I don't use Chrome (I'm one of those weirds who uses Firefox), but this reminded me that backspace for back is a nuisance in Firefox sometimes too. So I decided to look and, sure enough, there's an about:config setting to disable it. Nice!

You may have just saved me hours at work -- I have definitely lost huge, detailed replies I composed to clients because of a last-second keyboard screwup + the ticketing system not autosaving drafts regularly enough to catch everything (or anything, when you are really unlucky).

[LaineyBugsDaddy]

You're not that weird, man. I still use Firefox, too. I had been using Waterfox, but most plugins are not 64-bit and there doesn't seem to be a wrapper to let Waterfox use the 32-bit versions.

[Dragon]

Hmm... let's test this. 

* jr2 presses backspace after clicking outside of the reply area

* jr2 clicks the forward button.

Yup.  Just as I thought.  No data loss.

Which means that there's something missing for some sites (not sure if it's the browser's fault or the site's fault; I know what you mean; sometimes your input gets lost in electronic purgatory somewhere.  (I noticed this a lot more with IE if / when I used it [like at work]).

Well, this sometimes works like that and is invariably a huge relief. Sometimes it doesn't, even on this very site. It's hit or miss on other ones. I know it did happen to me on HLP when using Chrome. I'm still using it on my laptop (instead of Opera 12 I have on my stationary computer), but that's only because I don't want to use an outdated browser on a computer routinely exposed to public Wi-Fi networks.

Either way, it's gone now. One way to wipe your data less. Good riddance.