Comment 3 for bug 597472

I see what you mean, though when I use it in Banshee (don't know about other music players), I know I'm using a webpage because it FEELS like a webpage, and I expect it to do things that webpages/browsers can do. On the other hand, I see what you mean about not wanting to reinvent features of the browser within a website.

But when I'm using it, I constantly DO want to be able to refresh for all the same reasons that I want to refresh on a browser: the page doesn't always load correctly; I want to see if something has changed in the download progress bar; the connection is dropped; I'm waiting for something to happen on the server side (like the music getting transfered to u1 from 7d; etc.

As for forward, if it feels like a website, people are going to go looking for the forward button. When it's not there, we're going to get frustrated. I know what was my experience.

As for the back button, and the home buttons, it took me eons to find them because they aren't native icons, and because I don't look for browser controls within the website itself. They're elegant and subtle, but they took me FOREVER to find. So long that I decided they must not exist, and that I should file a bug.