"Judging by the other comments here, I'm not the only one who uses this shortcut." So what? There's a lot of people who actually lose data due to this "feature

"Judging by the other comments here, I'm not the only one who uses this shortcut." So what? There's a lot of people who actually lose data due to this "feature". Even if there was more of "your kind" (which I doubt), preventing data loss is more important than slight convenience. You can easily change a setting or a commandline option or install an extension. A lot of other people would need to call tech support for that, because they're afraid they'll break their computer... "Read carefully, slow down, and pay attention to what you're doing." For someone beyond their twenties, you're certainly a wise-ass, I have to say. "That goes back to my original suggestion of having a prompt dialog, and making it configurable for those who don't want the "permanent training wheels" Your suggestion doesn't work. It would literally break some applications and make others so annoying to use that the prompt would be the first thing users disable, bringing us back to square one. The underlying problem is unsolvable for a browser vendor. All that can be done is to mitigate it by reducing accidental back-navigation. If that means people like you are inconvenienced, so be it.