…bit confused when I press backspace my page in firefox2.0 will scroll up and not go back in previous page. Well that was the Linux default. Some kind a weird. hehehe. And pressing shift + backspace will scroll down your page. It is a feature of firefox in Linux platfrom.

The backspace key was mapped to the browser ‘Back’ function in Mozilla for consistency with Internet Explorer. However, to improve consistency with other applications running on Linux, it was decided that this mapping should be optional—and set based on which platform the browser was running on. As a compromise, this preference was created to allow the backspace key to either go back/forward, scroll up/down a page, or do nothing. - mozillazine

how to turn off this feature? go to address bar and type about:config
and press enter. and go to Filter for browser.backspace_action and change the value to 0.

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