Comment by edemaine

I find the back/forward buttons useful for undoing/redoing changes, so that I don't lose past cool designs / settings, though I can see it being a controversial approach.

That said, there were definitely way too much history generated when typing into a text field. I just implemented a planned compromise, where you only get a history event when changing a "committed" text field (meaning you previously defocused the field). Hopefully this is the best of both worlds!