Halfbakery: "Back" Limiter

For my personal computer, I use a keyboard that has a built-in touchpad. It is more efficient than using a mouse separate from the keyboard (hand moves less distance between keys and the cursor-control).

For some reason keyboards with touchpads were quite popular for a few years (about 15 years ago), and then mostly disappeared. You can still find old models on eBay and other places, if you want one. And, of course, the huge majority of laptop computers have touchpads near the keyboard.

It happens that while I greatly appreciate the basic things about touchpads ("no moving parts!") there is a particular "feature" of touchpads that I dislike intensely. This is the "tap to click" feature. The problem is, you have to TOUCH the touchpad in order to move the mouse-cursor, but if you touch it just a touch too much, then the device sends a "click" signal to the computer, and undesirable things tend to happen as a result (suppose you were trying to move the mouse-cursor AWAY FROM a "delete data" button?).

Depending on the "driver" software for a touchpad, its "touchiness" can be adjusted somewhat, to make it less likely that a touch gets registered as a click, and sometimes the touch-to-click feature can be disabled entirely. Except for one thing! Because the keyboards I have are old, the drivers are old, too. They don't properly work with today's versions of the Operating System! (And the touchpad technology has itself changed so much that new drivers don't work with old touchpads.)

Now let's consider Posting an Idea here at the Half- Bakery. You click the "add" link, and the browser obliging opens up a window in which you can type text like you are reading right now. Every now and then you make a typographical error, and need to use the Backspace key to fix it.

Meanwhile, because the mouse-cursor is covering up some of the text you are writing, and you need to re-read that text to maintain the writing "flow", you have moved it away from the main text-editing area. If you clicked the mouse- button, the overall browser window would be selected, not the text area in which you are writing. GENERALLY, this is not a problem.

However! Remember the need to use the Backspace key occasionally? Sometimes when I am in a bit of a hurry and am typing madly, part of my arm brushes the touchpad hard enough to register as a "click". Because of the physical location of the touchpad, the probability of that event is increased when I reach toward the Backspace key.

So, after typing a nice long and brilliant Idea for an hour, the following events can happen Very Quickly:
1. I make a typographical error.
2. I reach for the Backspace key.
3. My arm brushes the touchpad and a "click" is registered.
4. The main browser window becomes selected. It will receive the next input that I give it.
5. I press the Backspace key.
6. The browser obligingly closes down the "add Idea" page, and goes Back to the previous Web Page.

All that work is lost!!!! I try not to be a violent person, but I am quite willing to scream from mental agony when that happens.

PLEASE, Let Me Have A Way To Disable The Browser's Connection Between The Backspace Key and the "Back To Previous Web Page" functionality!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The browser still offers a "Back Button" on the screen, and I'm perfectly willing to use that to go to the previous page, when that is what I want to do. I'm sure they created the connection between the Backspace key and the "Back" browser-feature because using the keyboard IS more efficient than moving the hand over there where the mouse is. But I have a nice efficient keyboard-with- a-touchpad, remember?!?! For me, it is so easy to move the mouse-cursor that I have no need of that "shortcut to disaster" connected to the Backspace key.