Safari flips to previous page without intervention

I'll be typing along and suddenly I'm looking at the previous page. Trying to go back is an iffy thing as in some websites, if you leave the page, it dumps your typed entry. Just lost about ten minute worth of work. Not a happy camper.
How do we get Safari to stop this, or is it weird behaviour from the mouse?

Nope, just typing. My Magic Mouse definitely has had a bad spell hexed upon it, since it is prone to losing it's Bluetooth connection for no reason, plus it will begin to move a page sometimes if I just go near it.
Vibration?
I don't want to turn off the swipe for that turns it off for both track pad and mouse. I wish I could turn off the mouse swipe only, as I find that irritating.
The page zips across very quickly, almost as if I hit a key combination by mistake. Is there a swipe hotkey?

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