Google Chrome deletes Backspace
Found on The Register on Friday, 20 May 2016
As explained on this code review page “0.04% of page views navigate back via the backspace button and 0.005% of page views are after a form interaction.”
The change appears to have slipped into Chrome without much fanfare and now some of the small number of Backspace-and-Chrome-using folks out there are missing their preferred navigation keypress and venting in threads like this one.
Taking options away from users is hardly a good decision. It's not really a huge coding effort to have the backspace key do the same as the other "go back" options, so they could have just left it in. If a user complains about the backspace key doing something unexpected, then all options to go back one page should be disabled for that person.