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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2012-02-17 09:07 am
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What's wrong with LJ's back button?

What's gone wrong with LJ?  

Normally, when I post a comment on someone else's journal, it takes two presses of the back button to get me back to my friend's page.

Now, it's taking me a minimum of three presses.  It's getting damn annoying.  Is this happening to everyone, or just to me? 
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[personal profile] trixieleitz 2012-02-17 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have any add-ons or userscripts installed in your browser? It's possible that a recent code update has changed the part of the page that these interact with. If so, temporarily disabling them will let you see if this is what's going on.

[identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
I've not noticed any difference...

[identity profile] sammason.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
It's not happening to me. I hope you can get it sorted soon.

[identity profile] hawkida.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know what browser you use, but you should be able to get around this by interacting with the back button/history differently. Try right clicking the back button if you're on firefox, or using the down arrow to the right of the back/forward buttons if you're on IE. This should give you a dropdown that shows all your recent pages and you can go directly to the one you want. This does mean click, maybe scroll, click instead of click, click, click kind of interactions, but gives you the power to go to exactly where you want to be faster.

[identity profile] alex-holden.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
If you click and hold the back button, does it pop up a history list that lets you skip straight to the page you want? I find I sometimes have to do that if I Google through to a page with an instant redirect on it.

[identity profile] inamac.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't noticed this - but I tend to click the 'Friends Page' link at the top of LJ rather than back-button.

My problem is having to keep hitting 'refresh' every time I load a new page...

[identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
I must say I hadn't noticed, but that's mainly because I open posts in new tabs.

[identity profile] sweetheartwhale.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
happening to me today, just now

[identity profile] darth-tigger.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you posted this, because I had thought it was either my browser playing silly beggars and ignoring every other click, or me not clicking properly. It's definitely taking three clicks to get back, I've just checked very carefully.

[identity profile] oreouk.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That's very odd - I had a chance to check it just now and it's still 2 clicks for me.

[identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
And I checked it after posting at the top of the comments here, and it was only two for me.
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