What are you doing to my back button?
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Something very annoying happening quite frequently. I read a single page on a thread, and it takes several - usually about 5 - clicks of the back button to go back to the page I was on previously - usually my 'My Stuff' page.
It's as if something on the page is causing additional back entries. Looking at firebug, I wonder if it may be something to do with a call to timing.projectsunblock.com but not certain.
Screenshot below shows the Costco thread in the lounge. Clicking to read the last page only from my 'My Stuff' page has resulted in an annoying 5 entries in the history, which means 5 clicks of the back button to get back. Another thread where it happens a lot is the Random Photos thread in the Photography and Video forum.
And before anyone says it - Yes I could just click the 'My stuff' link to go back, but I instinctively go for the back button and shouldn't have to change browsing habits for one web site.
ETA: Just clicked on the random photos thread with Firebug open, and the page kept making requests to timing.projectsunblock.com (GET timing?key=......pistonheads.com) and every time it did, another history entry would appear, so looks like that is the culprit. It's bloody annoying.
It's as if something on the page is causing additional back entries. Looking at firebug, I wonder if it may be something to do with a call to timing.projectsunblock.com but not certain.
Screenshot below shows the Costco thread in the lounge. Clicking to read the last page only from my 'My Stuff' page has resulted in an annoying 5 entries in the history, which means 5 clicks of the back button to get back. Another thread where it happens a lot is the Random Photos thread in the Photography and Video forum.
And before anyone says it - Yes I could just click the 'My stuff' link to go back, but I instinctively go for the back button and shouldn't have to change browsing habits for one web site.
ETA: Just clicked on the random photos thread with Firebug open, and the page kept making requests to timing.projectsunblock.com (GET timing?key=......pistonheads.com) and every time it did, another history entry would appear, so looks like that is the culprit. It's bloody annoying.
Edited by ChipsAndCheese on Monday 8th October 11:34
This has been happening to me intermittently on Ebay and PH for a while now. PH is far worse than Ebay. Ebay tends to stuff 2 or 3 "adverts" into my history, so I can move back beyond the problem but PH puts so many entries into my history that I have to close the browser and start again.
Like this:
Like this:
as has been mentioned in some of the replies, I use Firefox.Watchman said:
This has been happening to me intermittently on Ebay and PH for a while now. PH is far worse than Ebay. Ebay tends to stuff 2 or 3 "adverts" into my history, so I can move back beyond the problem but PH puts so many entries into my history that I have to close the browser and start again.
Like this:
I started getting this today too. Win7 with IE8.Like this:
It's becoming really unusable at the moment. I mentioned this some months ago and then edited my HOSTS files to include all those advertisers that cropped up here. Then it seemed to go away for a while so I thought my fix had done it, but they're back with a vengence now, including some of those in my HOSTS file.
PLEASE PH, fix this.
Gonna have to start a list of problematic urls:
tag.admeld.com
PLEASE PH, fix this.
Gonna have to start a list of problematic urls:
tag.admeld.com
Edited by Watchman on Saturday 13th October 11:47
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