Seriously, who the fuck at Microsoft thought the backspace key should have the dual purposes of erasing the character immediately preceding the cursor and taking you back a page. If you arrive on a page that requires substantial form input and happens to be dynamically generated like, say, nearly every Web page with forms on all of the fucking Internets, hitting backspace outside of a form field completely fucks all your data entry.
Why the fucking fuck would you want that behavior? That’s broken by design. And there’s no way to turn it off, unless you’re the Web application owner, give a fuck, and hack it away with JavaScript. Fuck you, Microsoft. Bastards. (If it wasn’t a cluelessly designed IE-only Web application, I’d be using any other browser but IE.)
And fuck Web application developers that, in 2008, still think using JavaScript to auto-tab between fields for idiot users is a great idea. (Ties into my first point, fuck IE, because auto-tabbing will eventually tab you out to the submit button, which triggers the fucked up behavior if you thought you were backspacing to correct the prior field.)
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you are not alone. that backspace crap SUCKS. if its a large textbox (ie. emails) i usually CTRL+C and save a copy to my clipboard. otherwise, yea you’re really just fucked.