I usually check out MSNBC early in the morning and late at night for news headlines. Using the laptop I generally navigate forward and backward using the ALT arrow combination. Sometimes using the cursor and the back arrow on the Firefox control bar.
Recently I’ve noticed that on the MSNBC site and only that site I have to double click to navigate forward or backward.
Not the end of the world but it’s bizarre when it’s only that one site. Anyone else notice this or is it just me and my laptop?
I never visit that site but I just looked from my desktop here and it’s the same thing for me.
No doubt there’s something secondary loading when you get to a page - probably an Ajax feature - that is causing you to have to go back through it to get to the previous page.
Not a virus and not even really a bug so much as a mis-handled feature. Web designers don’t really expect you to navigate their sites this way (using back and forward buttons) but instead try to pack as much navigation on a page as possible so that you click to where you want to go. That’s the theory but we all know - even web designers (of which I am one) - is not the reality. In exchange for missing out on the easy ability to browse using your back and forward buttons, they are giving you some auto-loading content via ajax. Whee.