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> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:25 +0200
> 
> > Deleting an active region with Backspace is a bad idea, IMO: that's
> > not how other apps behave, while this feature exists to be compatible
> > with other apps.
> 
> Just tried it in the location bar of firefox.  Backspace certainly does
> delete an active region there.

Firefox does a lot of things that others don't.