Safari 5.1.7 Disabling the delete key from going back a page

Everytime Im on Safari and I want to delete some text Safari goes back to the previous viewed page after I press the delete key. This is very frustrating. Does anybody know how to disable. Please help

HI John,
That would require remapping. This thread has some links available that may help.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11553590
Possibly http://www.hotkey.com. You can assign Command + Backspace as a shortcut for Delete.
Carolyn

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I need to disable the delete key from going back a page.

My son is doing online homeschooling. If he is taking a quiz and accidentally hits the delete key to correct a word in his answer the page goes back and he is kicked out of the quiz. I need to disable this function in Safari to protect him from this. Please help.

HI John,
That would require remapping. This thread has some links available that may help.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11553590
Possibly http://www.hotkey.com. You can assign Command + Backspace as a shortcut for Delete.
Carolyn

How can I disable 'backspace' key from navigating back a page?

Several times over the last couple weeks, I type up a very well thought out response on Facebook in political conversations with friends. An hour or two into my work, I hit backspace with the intent of editing what I wrote (maybe after I scrolled or something, so maybe I unintentionally took the edit window out of focus). The navigator takes me back a page and I lose my two hours of work. Infuriating! Shortcuts with the ability to wipe out two hours of works should be disable-able. Not only that, I feel that is an unsafe shortcut for this very reason, and would have added a SHIFT modifier key or something like that. I think I invented a cool word: disable-able.

You can set the Integer pref browser.backspace_action to 2 on the about:config page to disable the backspace action. BTW Shift + Backspace does the reverse: going Forward if possible, so that is taken as well.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.backspace_action
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

Is there any way to disable the use of the "Delete" key to delete an email message?

It's very frustrating when I hit the delete key and iCloud automatically erases the selected email message. I receive some HTML formatted emails that include a text box that I can utilize to directly reply to something. If I don't make any mistakes at all, I can utilize this box and post a reply. But if I mess up and need to delete text, instead of deleting text iCloud deletes the email message. Is there any way to disable this?
Thanks for your help.

I don't believe it's possible to disable the delete key, but could be wrong. However, if you delete an email in error, you can restore it by pressing cmd + Z to undo the deletion.

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I did it once by mistake and it deleted all my trash - it is very difficult to restore when there are thousands of messages in various emaiil accounts.
Thanks

While you can't (so far as I know) remove it - you can assign a different (& less likely to be used accidentally) one via System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts.
Go there, create a new one (or 2) for Mail only, and give it the exact name(s) if the menu item(s) in question, capitalisation & ... included.
Below is on 10.6, but the idea's the same

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How can I permanently disable the "fn" key?

Hi. My subject says it all. How can I permanently disable the "fn" key?
At first I thought I had a virus or something because when I typed only weird symbols came out. Then I reset the computer. Then I couldn't even log in. I tried Time Machine etc.
Then I realized that the "fn" key wasn't working right. It seems to be working backwards. It acts like it's being pushed when it's not, and when I do push it it acts like it's not being used.
So it's kind of a simple problem but it's really annoying.
Is there a way I can just disable it permanently? Even physical force if necessary. I tried to break it but it wouldn't break. I don't really use the key anyway so it doesn't really matter. I don't want to pay a bunch of money to replace a key I don't even use.
Thanks. I hope someone knows.

That's the best answer. Yeah usually if you press "fn" or "option" you can get it to work for awhile.
Yeah I have considered some kind of external keyboard also. It will make a laptop less laptopish. But it could do the job for awhile.
It's sad because I don't even care about the "fn" or "option" keys.
But anyway it's not catastrophic at least.
And yeah maybe we can get a new computer later or something. I like mine though. It's customized and is how I like it right now.
Anyway thanks for the reply.

Since I must create a folder to send questionable emails I may read or refer to later, how do I change the action of the delete key so it'll be just as easy?

After recognizing and following the suggestions I skimmed in the Q&A, my trash is still being emptied against my wishes. Everything looked familiar involving settings, etc. I think and hope and will re-check that I've all the correct settings applied. I would like to verify; Do I have to really create a folder to send my email to instead of trash/delete if I want to view it later? If so that sucks, but I'll obviously work around it. My frustration with this matter over the years caused me to stop reading and here I am, agitated. I can probably figure out how to create a folder and MAYBE even figure out how to make it somewhat easier than it sounds to move the emails there. My biggest obstacle is learning how to program the delete key on my keyboard to send them there, because it's simply common sense to everyday users not to mention a terrible habit occurred over the many years of practicing to strike the delete key when a "I'll get to it later" email is highlighted AND without any worry knowing you can always find it in the trash because you know the last time the trash was emptied/permenantly deleted. Can you somehow make this a little more user friendly. It sucks to not be able to trust having an email when you go back to look for it. Can you imagine having to pay attention anything for longer than 5-7 seconds when you're trying to find that one email amongst possibly thousands in one of my in boxes because you're scared to death to delete anything that may be of value one day in the future, or not. Pretty please tell me I'm on the wrong track here and there's a simple solution and how to find it. And

IMHO, the mistake is to put anything in Trash if you think you'll ever want to look at it again. Do you ever "file" actual paper documents in the real Trash bin, down there on the floor?
However...
Your Trash folder may be on the email provider's server and subject to their housekeeping regime. Have a look at your account settings; if the account uses IMAP then you might try setting it to use a local Trash folder, for instance in your Local Folders account. That should put emptying of Trash under your control and safe from the whims of any third parties. But in my book, using Trash for persistent storage is perverse. Or as you might put it, it sucks.
I'd set up a Pending folder, and use QuickFolderMove, or use star and a filter, or a tag and a filter to park indeterminate messages in it.
The delete key is for deleting things, and nothing else.

How can I change the key to delete a message from the delete key to command-delete like it is in the finder?

These new forums confuse me... Sorry.
I often think I am typing in another window but I'm actually typing while Mail.app is selected. When I discover this, I often (without really thinking) start whacking the delete key. When I whack the delete key, of course, a message is moved to the trash. So, without really thinking about it, I delete three to six messages. Go ahead -- call me stupid. But...
If delete is not used to delete files in the Finder, then why is it used to delete files in Mail?
One group suggested making customer keyboard macros. Sounded like a plausible solution. I could make a customer keyboard macro so that delete did nothing (or something benign) and make command-delete delete the message. Alas, using the Apple => System Preferences => Keyboard => Keyboard Shortcuts => Application Shortcuts gave me no Joy because it won't let me do either of those. When I try to enter either delete or command-delete into the "Keyboard Shortcut" box, it just beeps at me.
Does anyone here have a suggestion?
Thank you,
pedz
p.s. I can get the deleted messages back using Undo (repeatedly) but I think that is new with Lion. So life isn't tragic but it still is an interface that I'd like to change if I could.

You can define your own custom keystrokes in System Preferences -> Keyboard. I'm not 100% sure that this blocks the old keystroke, though, and am posting from my iPad and can't check that at the moment.

Recently, the delete key and rt click delete do not remove a message. Have to restart T'Bird to be able to delete a message. Using v 24.5.0

Using Thunderbird 24.5.0, W7, up-to-date in fixes
The delete key and the right click delete suddenly don't delete a messsage.
Restarting Thunderbird and then they both work.
What should I be looking for?

I tried that - but same result.

Project deleted in iPhoto 11 ver. 9.1.1 After spending three months building a twenty six page Book Project in iPhoto i added a page and later decided to delete the page. I selected the page, pressed the delete key and confirmed the delete dialog box ( i

Project deleted in iPhoto 11 ver. 9.1.1
After spending three months building a twenty six page Book Project in iPhoto i added a page and later decided to delete the page. I selected the page, pressed the delete key and confirmed the delete dialog box ( i didn't read, dummy) by pressing the delete button. The whole project was gone, the undo menu was grayed out and there was nothing in the iPhoto trash about my Book.
Surly I can find this if I knew the path to find the project in a library on a back column I have of my hard drive.. Could anyone help me?

Sorry I'm having a hard time getting this.
If I go to my hard drive BIGMAC>Library>Application Support>iPhoto>the only thing in this folder is Themes.
However, when I "Get Info" it's 580MB for 24,421 items. iPhoto says I have 35,977 photos. I would think the database would be into the GB for this many photos.
If I go to BIGMAC>system>Library>I find nothing about iPhoto
Is the iPhoto file in the Application Support the one I need to replace with my backup?
Thanks so much for your help.
Jack

Why does the delete key on the keyboard go backward? How can I make it go the other way?

I'm used to a PC keyboard that enables me to delete characters from where my cursor it to the next space to the right. The keyboard I have with my Mac, alas, is frustrating for me to use because it goes backwards from what I am used to. Is there a fix to this? My PC keyboard has a backspace button in addition to the delete button, so it is very straightforward for me that way.

The delete key, if the cursor is placed mid sentence, will remove letters etc forwards from that cursor point. If you are deleting from the end of a sentence, the backward facing long arrow above the return key will delete backwards from that point.
For groups of letters or sentences, highlight them and press delete.
It is one of those situations where you should learn the new approach because the rest of the system is geared to it.
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Strange items deletion in various applications as if the Delete key being pressed.

I work with a T420 laptop docked in a docking station.
The following strange phenomenon is happaning:
Occasionally, Items are being deleted or attempt to be deleted in various applications as if the Delete key is being pressed constantly.
Examples:
1. The Outlook window is open, left mouse click on the Inbox folder results in all emails being deleted.
2. Explorer window is open, left mouse click on one of the files or folder results in attemp to delete the file or folder. Clicking 'NO' results in an endless loop of attempt to delete.
3. Google window is open (IE), clicking on one of the letters in the search box, results in this letter being deleted.
4. Open Task manager, results in attempt to delete the first task in row.
When docked out the laptop from its station, this strange behavior stopped.
Needles to say, that I replaced the external keyboard and the docking station itself, but it did not help.
HAS ANYONE ENCOUNTERED SUCH A PROBLEM? What do I do?!

I am having a similar issue that I can consistently recreate. I was finding that emails were "randomly" getting deleted from various folders. It was driving me crazy! I keep my Outlook inbox fairly well organized in that I keep emails in there if they require further action. I don't keep my Deleted folder organized however, so I was getting chunks of emails going from my Inbox to my Deleted items folder and it became very difficult to find all of the deleted emails that I still needed to action..... Here is how I can recreate this:
Laptop is off of the docking station and open. Outlook has focus with an email highlighted in my inbox. I close the lid and place the laptop onto the docking station. The email that had focus is now in the deleted folder. Again, I can recreate this virtually every time. Please help!

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Hi, I have a jsf page that has an <h:inputText> fileld, and whenever I fill it and press enter the form gets submmited. I want to disable the enter key, so that if the user hits enter nothing will happen. This way the form will only be submmited by clicking a button with the mouse.
Thank you,
Komyg

You can use javascript to do this. The merits of using javascript can be saved for another time. Simply put 'javascript disable enter key' in a Google search and you will find what you need. Here is the link at the top of that list:
http://www.felgall.com/jstip43.htm
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