Backspace to the Future with Firefox

One more complaint to throw on the already gigantic pile that web browsers have earned:

PLEASE stop using the backspace key as the default shortcut for backwards navigation. Yes, its name has the word "back" in it. We get it. No, this does NOT make it appropriate to use for backwards navigation in a web browser. With that logic, we might have browsers closing themselves whenever the "End" key is pressed.

For everyone who has lost a long forum post, e-mail, lengthy form, or progress in a browser-based game due to an errant backspace, there is an easy fix. Install Firefox, navigate to about:config (you have to type it in manually), then scroll down to "browser.backspace_action" and set its value to "2". Done. No more backspace key tomfoolery.

Microsoft, I generally love your stuff, but I think you might lose even more market share to this poor browser design choice (among others). I hope you fix it. The dismal tradition continues with IE8, and there still doesn't seem to be any easy way of disabling that shortcut in it, either.