>This would make it even less consistent, wouldn't it? Microsoft Word does not have a back button. What operation should a back button perform in Google Docs?

>This would make it even less consistent, wouldn't it? Microsoft Word does not have a back button. What operation should a back button perform in Google Docs? >"Back" and "Up" are virtually indistinguishable for an average user. Sometimes you want to go "back" to the main page of a domain. Other times you just want go to the previous page. Other times you want to leave the website entirely. Other times you want to "undo". It simply makes no sense for a web browser to try to support all these features based on a simplistic web browser history based on URLs. It's an ancient way of thinking about the web.