I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost 2, 5, 10, 20 minutes worth of composition while posting something, or even making a purchase, and the F*****g backspace key, which is an editing key like DEL, INS, etc… takes me back a page.

That would be analogous to a typewriter shredding your page when you want to erase a mis-key.

Somehow I managed to type this without the backspace key doing it to me – maybe the owner has backspace capture code to prevent it, maybe I’m lucky today. Maybe I should play the lottery too.

I’m constantly using notepad as a scratch pad to paste my work just in case that dreaded key turns into a time machine, wasting minutes of my life at a time, chopping away at my existence.

20 years ago, the Internet and www was structured so differently, it didn’t matter, but now with people doing more and more with their browsers, PLEASE FIX IT. Sometimes you’re so stupid, Microsoft.

A half-hour’s lost typing was the impetus for me to spend two hours trying to prevent the same thing from ever happening again.
First stop: grabbing Turnabout for IE. Turnabout is basically Greasemonkey for IE – it lets you run your own scripts…