Why the BACKSPACE key to navigate to the previous page, instead of just a rear back on what I'm typing?

This happens all to often; I'm filling out a form online and I made a mistake and press the BACKSPACE key and then Firefox navigates back one page rather than just a return back on the text. Because of the endless amounts of frustration that I then have to re - fill in the form that I was trying to fill.
I have disabled this feature in all: config, but is not a viable solution because it gets overwritten every time that happens an update of Firefox.

This feature can only be got rid of completely, or have an option to turn off?

You shouldn't lose pref settings when you update Firefox.
In this case you have most likely a problem with your security software or other software of cleaning that restores the settings.

You want to be sure that a pref change then you can use the user.js file to initialize this pref at each start by copying its line in the file prefs.js to it.

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