Comment 76 for bug 60995

Robert is right. It just seems like it's doing the same thing as back because typically you navigate from a parent folder to a child folder. Sometimes it does not do what you would expect, however. I remember being surprised at this behaviour several times while using Nautlius. But that is a separate product, and perhaps I should file a separate bug report to change that behaviour making Backspace go back instead of up.

Obviously I'm not a part of the Mozilla Foundation, nor have I ever committed any actual code, I only try to help with bugs, so I don't really feel I should have much of a say in this. Having said that, however, I think perhaps the real point of this bug should be to launch a campaign to make sure that GNOME and especially Novel corporate interests are NOT represented in any Mozilla projects, and that instead the decisions made reflect a reasonable view of the best possible choice. As I've said, GNOME already has its own browser, called Epiphany. I feel like they've snubbed Mozilla by even creating it and continuing to use and promote it. Not only that, but the GNOME project is free to ship a customised GNOME-specific version of Firefox itself. These customisations should not be in the base product, however. And I say all this being a strong GNOME user and advocate myself! The real issue is that this project must be free of commercial influences such as Novel.

Sorry for the spam, I know that's rather unrelated to this bug, and this is not a mailing list.