Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

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Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by 5Cats » 2022-11-23, 16:53

Windows:

In my game, in the chat or PM Box, if I hit Backspace for any reason it exits the game and goes to the Pale Moon welcome page.
I don't have Ctrl, Caps, Alt, Shift or anything else active. Just backspace and it exits.

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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by therube » 2022-11-23, 17:40

What version of PM?
What game (URL) & can others get to it (without login or whatnot)?
Is it only with that one game where this occurs?

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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by Moonchild » 2022-11-23, 19:10

Is this a plugin-based game?
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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by 5Cats » 2022-11-24, 03:44

therube:
The latest? This started after the last update, just the other day.
It's called 'Guns N Magic' and was a FaceBook game, but when Flash ended it moved to its own servers. In Russia. You can't access it without signing up and somehow getting it to run without Flash (like I used Pale Moon to do! Using an old version of Flash). Their "launcher" didn't remotely work for me.
It's the only game I play with Pale Moon, the backspace works here though.

Moonchild:
I have no idea. It's Flash based and used to be a Facebook game. It started after the last Pale Moon update went through. There are never any game updates :p

It does it in the chat, PM boxes or even in the normal game. My cat may have stepped on something to trigger it, but I can't imagine what that might have been. It should have stopped by now.
I press 'backspace' and it goes back one page, not back one space in the text boxes.

Edit: Outside this text window? Hitting Backspace sends it back a page! Here in the Forums, not this box... so weird! Is it supposed to do that?

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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by FranklinDM » 2022-11-24, 04:11

There is a workaround that you can do, but this will disable backspace navigation functionality for all pages: Go to about:config and set the value of the preference browser.backspace_action to 2

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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by THX-1139 » 2022-11-24, 05:13

Have you tried the Back arrow key on your numeric keys?
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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by 5Cats » 2022-11-24, 18:59

FranklinDM wrote:
2022-11-24, 04:11
There is a workaround that you can do, but this will disable backspace navigation functionality for all pages: Go to about:config and set the value of the preference browser.backspace_action to 2
My cat-brain cannot even!
Is that here in Pale Moon? Or in my Windows system? How do i access this? C: prompt?

Thx-1138:
It works as normal, I could use the arrows and 'del' to fix stuff, thanks!

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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by Moonchild » 2022-11-24, 21:06

5Cats wrote:
2022-11-24, 03:44
It's Flash based and used to be a Facebook game.
Then it is indeed a plugin-based game. Flash is a plugin. I'll have a look if there's anything specific i need to be handling for plugins.
5Cats wrote:
2022-11-24, 18:59
My cat-brain cannot even!
Is that here in Pale Moon? Or in my Windows system? How do i access this? C: prompt?
In the address bar, type about:config and press enter
This opens the advanced configuration editor of the browser (after a warning)
In the configuration editor there is a "filter" bar at the top. type the word "backspace" in there.
Find the preference FranklinDM mentioned, double-click it, and in the input box, enter the number "2"
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Re: Backspace Exits To Pale Moon Welcome Page

Unread post by 5Cats » 2022-11-25, 03:51

Moonchild wrote:
2022-11-24, 21:06
In the address bar, type about:config and press enter
This opens the advanced configuration editor of the browser (after a warning)
In the configuration editor there is a "filter" bar at the top. type the word "backspace" in there.
Find the preference FranklinDM mentioned, double-click it, and in the input box, enter the number "2"
Success! Thanks a ton :>

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