Comment 94 for bug 60995

Backwards in history invites dataloss when the user ends up going back by accident. In my experience, this has happened when I think have a text control focused and the browser thinks otherwise.

Usually that happens when I tab into a textfield or click on it and start typing, realize I made a typo, and hit backspace. If I do this fast enough, in Firefox 1.5 I end up going back a page on Linux (and had I not hit backspace, I would not end up seeing the several characters I typed; there seems to be some lag focusing form inputs). Doesn't seem to happen on Windows, the few times that I've used Firefox there. So perhaps there's just not as much feeling that this is a problem.

It could also be that since all Windows browsers have been doing this for a long time (unlike the Linux situation), Windows users are used to this behavior. In any case, I've not seen a Windows user complaining about the problem.

What we should really care about, perhaps, is Mac. Given the current slew of focus bugs, about half the time clicking on a textfield doesn't focus it there, period. Then again, I'd hope we fix that before 1.9.