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I've found that KDE Brainstorm doesn't behave how I'd expect, i.e. like a normal web page. For example, if I try to middle click on the link to view the comments for an idea, I expect it to load that in a new tab. Instead, it seems to hijack that input so the browser never sees it and just loads the comments in the same page.

Now this wouldn't be so bad, but then when I'm done reading the comments, if I hit the back button, expecting to go back to the list of ideas I was looking at, I instead go back to the KDE forum index, because the browser never realized I had navigated to a different page. To make matters worse, there doesn't seem to be any link on the page that will take me back.

It seems like there's a lot of room for this interface to improve.

This is because you use the AJAX interface. You can disable AJAX by clicking on "Disable AJAX" at the bottom of the page.

For example, if I try to middle click on the link to view the comments for an idea, I expect it to load that in a new tab. Instead, it seems to hijack that input so the browser never sees it and just loads the comments in the same page.

Which browser? I can't reproduce with Firefox 3.5.7, with or without AJAX enabled.

Now this wouldn't be so bad, but then when I'm done reading the comments, if I hit the back button, expecting to go back to the list of ideas I was looking at, I instead go back to the KDE forum index, because the browser never realized I had navigated to a different page.

This is because of AJAX.

To make matters worse, there doesn't seem to be any link on the page that will take me back.

If there's a page to go back to, you'll see a link under the idea (<< Back to previous page). Personally I don't like this placement, and trust me, I've complained about it.

Before we had a "toolbox" with reload and back which followed the page as you scrolled, but this made scrolling slow for some persons.

Since your post doesn't consist of one concrete idea, I've marked it as invalid.