Comment 21 for bug 1108637

Microsoft has attempted to do the same thing in the trial run of Nashville (it was the OS that was later turnt into Windows 98), they have removed "up" from the Explorer and kept only Forward and Back. This was a disaster (and anybody with any brain can understand why, if you went from a different directory there is no way to go up one level, since 'Back' takes you to a completely different point of the directory tree).

So, the question becomes, if even Microsoft was intelligent enough to return this feature, why did *anybody* in the free software community decide that it was good to remove it. Even the idiots who removed buttons from the phone or made something too small to be useful as a computer and too large to be a mobile (Apple, Inc) wouldn't dream of doing something as stupid as this outside of some test audience.