Safari 8.0 "delete" key to previous page

Is there a way in terminal to enable the delete key to go to previous page? I am using Yosemite on 2008 23" iMac. I really miss the feature, and I keep hitting delete button. I know you can change the prefs for Safari 6 and 7. But I cannot find anything to change the Safari 8.
Help! I have regular keyboard and mouse, so the two finger swipe is not an option.

I recently updated to Yosemite 10.10.1 and Safari seemed to be behaving. But alas: I have been using Safari all  morning today. I just left my MacBook for maybe 1/2 hour to get lunch.
Come back: Safari is stuck: it hangs opening any web page from any site. All the pages I had open before lunch now hang. Of course Chrome and Firefox keep on working as usual.
But I noticed something else: other Apple-made tools fail too. Calendar for example hangs with the little spinning wheel and eventually says: "Calendar couldn’t connect to p09-caldav.icloud.com. Make sure you’re connected to the Internet, and then try again later.
And indeed, p09-caldav.icloud.com is unreachable:
$ ping p09-caldav.icloud.com
PING p09-caldav.icloud.com.akadns.net (17.164.0.75): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
^C
All other similar systems appear to be unreachable too (p01-caldav.icloud.com etc). Same behavior for contacts: it also fails to connect to my icloud contacts. And the App Store (that tells me there is one update pending) just hangs for ever: it does not even display its home window. I have doubts about Messages (at least with the icloud messages - jabber works fine).
So let me count:
- safari: unusable
- calendar: unusable
- contacts: unusable
- app store: unusable
But at least trusty old Google Chrome works. And I imagine that Safari (and his friends) will resume working for no good reason when I go for dinner ... But I can't go on that way. I am using all of this for real work. If I can't depend on them being reliable, then what's the point ? I might as well fire up my old Windows laptop and be done with it.
I am sure a reboot will cure all. But it takes sooooo loooong.

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