After clicking & viewing a post here, when I click the back button Firefox brings me back to the thread listing but always back at the top instead of at the thread I clicked on. This doesn’t seem to happen anyplace else, like eBay for example.
This is rather annoying. Anyone know of a setting that will fix this. I looked in the Firefox help forums but didn’t find anything (this message board seems to be the only place Firefox does this).
I don’t have a solution but it does this to me as well and it drives me crazy. I didn’t have any luck finding the solution either.
Open the trhead in a new tab. If the thread is loading slow go back and read the list of thread and pick another to open in a new tab. When you are done reading a thread, close the individual tab. You first tab will still be where you left off.
Yeah, that’s what I do to get around it. I don’t understand why Firefox does this here though. Like I said, it doesn’t do it anyplace else, like eBay auction listings.
You may want to check bugzilla.mozilla.org. That bug 258133 seems to match it, with 47350, 236971 and 217120 being similar.
I’ve noticed it on occasion to, but it hasn’t been a big deal for me.
I have noticed that Firefox reloads the page rather than gets a copy from the cache. I suspect this is why it doesn’t try to maintain position, after all content has probably shifted. Whilst a little annoying at first it did prompt me to start opening threads in new tabs, which is by far the best solution.
It’s not a bug (at least not with Mozilla/Firefox), the page is telling it to reload. Look at the top of the code:
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
So then, actually, Firefox is doing what it ought to? (Though I don’t see why there can’t be an option to turn off certain meta tags if you like.) Get used to using tabs; it’s by far the easiest way to use an online forum anyway. That’s what tab browsing exists for.
FF is indeed doing what the web page is telling it to do, and while that might be annoying I can’t find anything in the about:config UI that would likely change it.
So the solution (for now, at least) is to use tabs. Which, in many people’s opinions, makes browsing a lot better anyway.
I’ve said so in other threads; I don’t get why people are resistant to trying it when it’s so much easier in general, and particularly here at the SDMB. At least once you set it to load new tabs in the background, and make holding the control-key or your right mouse button trigger loading in a separate tab. You might need extensions for some of this stuff, though, I don’t remember exactly how I set it up. But Firefox does have a woeful lack of control over tab functioning compared to Mozilla; for some reason, the interface for features that it includes is mostly absent.
Something I forgot to mention about a problem with just opening a thread in another tab. When you do that and then click the first tab to go back to the thread list, the threads that you’ve viewed aren’t greyed to show that you’ve viewed them!
And if you hit refresh they do get greyed, but then you’re back at the top of the thread list which was the problem to begin with!
Again, not a huge issue but still annoying.
This bugged me too; it’s been fixed in recent releases (I have 1.7.3) of Mozilla. (Clicking a link now immediately changes its color.)