Sometimes I am checking things on here and would like to simply click on the browser arrow (on the left side top of computer) and at times, it takes me back to previous page, but sometimes it will not work. Any ideas?
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Cubanitatb Reputation: 36 See Cubanitatb's booth |
Are you using Firefox? That thing causes me a lot of duress. I don’t have any issues with Ichrome or IE, if that helps.
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midfield_john Reputation: 20 See midfield_john's booth |
If you are using Internet Explorer and have deleted/cleared browsing history (under Tools) and then use the back button it will not work until you start browsing again. That’s been my experience. Hope this helps.
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kids2lambs Reputation: 14 See kids2lambs' booth |
I use FireFox, and very seldom have an issue with this. Check and see how long your computer is retaining it’s history for.
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tattooshack Reputation: 12 See tattooshack's booth |
Some browsers are automatically set to clear cookies, cache and history information once you close the browser. It does that for privacy reasons, so it’s not wise to disable clearing cookies. History can be set to expire at a longer duration.
As long as your browser remains open, you haven’t rebooted your computer, and your history has not expired; you’ll be able to go back to the page you started with. If not, it will reset to the first page you open after that.
You can also use the “open in new tab” or “open in new window” feature to browse multiple pages at once. It comes in handy when you’re comparison shopping ;)
I hope that helps :)
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techlover Reputation: 18 See techlover's booth |
I know the answer to this one :)
All web browsers we designed to jump to links, in the old days each link would normaly point to a new document, then by using the back button you could trace back thru the links you were visting.
However in todays web pages new technologies like ajax and flash confuse the back button, why? becuase these techologies no longer jump to pages, instead they dynamicly change the content of the page your seeing rather than loading a new page and this is where it goes wrong for the back button, by not loading a new page your web browser no longer knowns ‘the previous’ pages you’ve been visting.
So when you press the back button… kaboom… you taken right out of the site and back to the the page your back button thinks you came from …
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ilovebling Reputation: 12 See ilovebling's booth |
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