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> Can anyone explain why anyobe would make such a comment?

Because the original story doesn't add up. If you're typing and press backspace to delete some characters you just typed, without some additional tab pressing, mouse clicking, or Javascript shenanigans on behalf of the website, the browser won't go back in history. That's just a cold hard fact.

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If people are getting mad at going back a page by accident, then they are going back a page by accident. It's happened to me, and while I'm still not entirely sure why, I really don't care why. The "Self Destruct" button shouldn't be next to the "Make Phone Call" button.

This behavior has hit me many times because on a laptop accidentally touching the trackpad can lose focus from a text field very easily, so while I am typing a comment/whatever if my thumb or palm drops a bit to touch the trackpad just before I hit the delete key, the browser is suddenly making me angry. Even if no text is lost, focus on doing whatever I was doing is lost.

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