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> "because somebody made a poor UI decision 20 years ago and people don't like change"

And now they did a poor UI decision by making a swipe gesture go back

Which would be ok if it wasn't for the fact that sometimes when scrolling (on anything that has 2 dimensions) you will accidentally swipe back.

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I use it all the time in Safari and love it. In Chrome it's less obvious when it is being triggered though.

Yes, in Safari there's a more obvious visual indication.

I suspect that back and forth in Safari may be non-destructive as well (though I can't confirm this right now)

One of the things that makes it easy to swipe back by mistake is the apple trackpad, so I suspect Safari developers are aware of this and added the indication

> I suspect that back and forth in Safari may be non-destructive as well (though I can't confirm this right now)

I just tried swiping back and forth with this text in the Hacker News comment box and it didn't lose the content. I'm pretty sure I've had issues before, I think in relation to pages loaded by POST.

How can you accidentally put a third finger down to swipe back, if you're scrolling with two fingers?

In Chrome on OS X, either two or three fingers will both scroll and change page.

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