Comment 45 for bug 60995

The people who complain about backspace == back in history can be found here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262905
I did ask people to look in related bugs before commenting.

Making Firefox consistent across platforms has always been secondary to making it consistent with per-platform guidelines. We don't always do a good job of this, but that's how it is, and rightly so. Consistency across browsers is also secondary.

> This isn't at all a GNOME-vs-KDE-vs-Windows issue, it's
> a basic usability issue

Indeed, and the issue is that "backspace == back in history" can lead to irreversible data loss and is relatively easy to trigger by mistake. These are the principles behind the decision.

> The majority of GNOME users (let alone users of other
> desktop environments) don't want this. That's the
> bottom line.

You have no way of knowing this, since you have not surveyed them in a statistically valid way.