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Last week or so this has been happening. Just goes back 1-2 pages randomly, as if I've pressed the back page arrow. It's a touchscreen chromebook.
Happens with both Chrome and Opera.
Disabling touch screen makes no difference. Nor does change trackpad to click rather than tap.
I've powerwashed, and tried disabling all extensions with no benefit.
Any ideas?
I'm thinking hardware fault likely? It is out of warranty....
try disabling the backspace function to see if it's a keypad issue
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backstop/pidcjgldchekcoolelhbjfbnccjkckfj
Thanks stoner..looked into that and they removed the backspace-pages-back feature a few updates ago so not that.
I've deleted all my android apps and removed access to the play store. Then another powerwash.
For now that seems to have sorted it.... fingers crossed.
OK that didn't sort it. Still happened in guest mode, and on Ubuntu installed with Crouton.
I'm pretty sure I've localised it to the physical Page Back key on the keyboard (beside the Escape key where the function keys would normally be).
Removing back of the Chromebook didn't allow easy access to the keys that way. I've removed the key and cleaned with alcohol/air etc but still happening, even with the plastic cover removed.
....so is there a way to disable that key completely? Permanently is fine as it is unusable at present with this fault.
have you tried disabling the backspace key in the Chrome settings?
settings > Keyboard > change the drop down next to the "Backspace" key to disabled.
thanks Stoner.. doesn't help as the backspace key doesn't "go to previous page" on my Chromebook. It just acts as a delete key. My suspicion is that it is the F1 key which is playing up randomly as on the Chrome side of things I get random "go to previous page" and when I remap the top row of keys in the settings to standard F keys then I get random "help" appearing. In Ubuntu I also get random "help" appearing.