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When I'm editing text in a textbox and I type the backspace key instead of moving the cursor back and deleting a character it acts as if I had hit the previous arrow at the top of the browser. This happens in both Brave and Edge. If I hold the shift key I get the normal backspace key behavior, but it's slower.

This just started happening. I’ve rebooted and I still get this behavior. I’m on Ubuntu 22.04.

What could cause this? Note that this about editing text such as when entering search terms. When I hit backspace it takes me back to another web page as if I had hit the previous arrow at the top of the browser.

This happens on:

Brave:

  • Version 1.73.105 Chromium: 131.0.6778.265
  • Version 1.75.181 Chromium: 133.0.6943.141

Edge:

  • Version 131.0.2903.112
  • Version 133.0.3065.92

This does not happen on:

  • Brave 1.71.118 Chromium 130.0.6723.70
  • Edge 130.0.2849.52
Giacomo1968
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It turns out that in this case the problem was the keyboard itself. I replaced the keyboard and backspace works properly again. I don't know what kind of keyboard malfunction causes the backspace key to work like the Previous arrow in the browser.

Another problem solved without understanding.

Dean Schulze
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