Apex generating javascript to disable button onClick

I have navigational buttons in a region to go, for example, to the "Next" page.
APEX is including:
onClick="javascript:this.disabled=true;"
as part of the "Next" buttons attributes.
So that after the user clicks the "Next" button and goes to the next page,
if they click the browsers Back button, the "Next" button is indeed disabled.
The Next button is disabled in FireFox but remains enabled in IE. Thus causing
confusion for the user using FireFox.
So I'd like to have APEX not generate this javascript at all.
Is there a way to turn that off? Some switch on the page/region/button that I'm
not seeing?
Or is this just the old browser back button problem?
Thanks in advance.

I have processes that make calls to packages on the back-end so I don't know if importing it into the Oracle Apex hosted environment will work.
This may or may not help but these are the page by page steps I took in creating these buttons.
1- Click the "Create" button icon in the "Buttons" area in the "Page Rendering" column.
2- "Select a region for the button:" (Gave it an existing region to reside in).
3- Choose: "Create a button in a region position"
4- Give it a Name and a Label. Click "HTML Button". Leave the default "Submit Page and Redirect to URL".
5- Choose a Region Position, Sequence, Alignment (under "Button Attributes" is where I assigned it a style but NOT for this button).
6- Choose a page to branch to.
7- Click "Create button". (no display condition chosen if you clicked the Next button).
8- Run Page
9- View the Source
There it is:
<input type="BUTTON" value="Test" onClick="javascript:this.disabled=true; doSubmit('TEST');" >
and it also creates the Branch that redirects to the page I specified based on the buttons name (I think it uses name, still a little new to this).
so i dunno. 8-( Just wondered if that sequence of events seems normal.

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