If they indeed are, then that makes the issue worse, not better, because
now it's bad design since it is by intention, not just an oversight.
Like I explained above, this is not a matter of my personal preference
but derived from basic principles of design. Why would it look weird to
have similar sized buttons?? Design consistency will look weird?

That all GTK apps use such a system is not a defence, its not a good
thing. Just for knowledge though, in which other app can I see the same
behaviour? I haven't myself seen asymmetric back/forward buttons in
other apps. EOG/Gthumb etc have equal sized ones but I guess that is
because they do not have the drop down arrow next to them and no text to
fit to either.

I don't use epiphany but looking at the screenshots, it follows the
GNOME HIG closer than Firefox, and hence seems to suffer the same
problem as Nautilus. I know a lot of people were pissed off about
Firefox violating GNOME HIG but frankly, now I can see why they did
that. Epiphany and the GNOME HIG seem to have never heard of Fitts law
or of UI design in general, glad to know that Mozilla know its UI design
and have violated the GNOME HIG for a very very good reason.

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Back button (most used) in Nautilus smaller than rest
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390724
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