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Subject: Weird bug: browser back button dies in forums

spedler opened this issue on Apr 11, 2006 ยท 24 posts


spedler posted Tue, 11 April 2006 at 1:17 PM

This is weird - so weird, I'm reluctant to say it's the fault of the new forum, but I can't see any other explanation.

When I enter a forum I can go back to the main page, as normal, by clicking the browser's 'back' button. But once I'm in a thread, this doesn't work any more. At first I thought it was a problem local to me, but I have tested this extensively in other forums - DAZ, RDNA, and Cornucopia, to name but three. There, the back button works as it always has. In this forum, it doesn't.

The marketplace and the front pages work just fine, so it must be something to do with the forum software. I've tried IE6 and that works OK; but I normally use Mozilla 1.7.7. I can see the back button highlighting as I mouse over it, but there's no effect when clicking, on it, and the Backspace button on the keyboard doesn't send me back either.

If I had to guess, I'd say it has something to do with the fancy new text editor that's just been added, because everything was fine yesterday. Please fix this as soon as possible - it makes the forums unusable to me.

Steve