Having a little problem with navigation in the Straight Dope. (Windows XP, and IE 8) This just started yesterday.
The back button on the browser toolbar periodically stops working. Cllicking on it once, or multiple time does nothing. Often the only way to get rid of the page is to exit the SD (this still seems to work).
This does not happen all of the time, but I estimate that it does for at least 50% of the time I click it. Very annoying.
Anybody have an idea?
BTW, the S.D. is the only web site that exibits this problem. All others I visit work OK.
Not sure if it works for IE, but in Firefox if you click on the back button, don’t release the mouse button and drag downwards, it opens a list of previous pages. Do you see many copies of the same page? You could also try looking at history.
This is a pretty common issue, and the only solution coming from the administration is “buy a membership”. It’s an issue with the embedded ads, which will ocassionally hijack your browsing history and plug in a bazillion instances of some doubleclick.ad site.
As TD states, it’s a Microsoft issue. If you were to use Chrome or Firefox, you shouldn’t experience the problem. If you were to use Chrome or Firefox with ad-blocker add-ons, all the better.
You still need to run an anti-virus, anti-malware scan. It appears IE has been hijacked by something and while it may not infect Firefox, it could still leave you vulnerable to something worse.