How to enable backspace key for back page in safari

August 7, 2012

This post will show you how to re-enable the backspace key to take you back a page in safari 6 on osx mountain lion.

firstly, open up terminal
then type


defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Back "\U232b"

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