Random jump to previous page

My daughter, who uses two separate Macs, reports:
"Occasionally if I'm browsing in Firefox or in the Finder it will suddenly jump to the previous page without me knowingly doing anything."
She later added:
"It just flips back to the previous page when I'm browsing (often in the middle of reading or writing something on a web page). I'm usually holding the mouse, but not pressing anything - which is why it is so strange. Different websites, but it also happens in the Finder too - just flips back to the previous folder. Only started happening since last updates of the OS."
Has anybody else had this? Is it a known bug?

Thanks for your help. Sorry to take so long - communication delays - she is in Washington and I am in the UK.
She says that her work Mac has a Magic Mouse and your answer helped resolve the problem on that one but she still has the issue with her trackpad on her home Mac. This is what she said:
"My work computer mouse seems to be more sensitive to swiping left to right since I turned off the scrolling up and down (was driving me mad in Powerpoint) and even the tiniest motion will now set it off and send me back a page. There isn't any way to change this as far as I can tell. I'm still confused on my home computer as the same motion on a trackpad requires 3 fingers and I can't get it to do it how ever much I purposefully try, but yet sometimes it does it spontaneously when I'm not trying."

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