Questions tagged [back-button]
For questions related to using the browser's "Back" button.
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Using your browser's back button may result in posting an answer twice
Under some circumstances, when posting an answer and using the browser's back button, hitting the 'Post Your Answer' button again results in the answer being posted twice. This happened to me here by ...
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Websockets break caching
Since some time, the SE network has "Hot Network Questions" in a sidebar. Interesting as they are, I click on one of them. It occurs quite frequently that I see another interesting question after ...
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Going back after voting shows the page without my vote in Chrome
Vote on a question or add as a favourite.
Click a link.
Press the back button.
The vote isn't visible (but has still been recorded).
Chrome v6.0.472.63
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Pressing browser's back button takes you to a few days ago's homepage [closed]
I've been noticing this for quite a while, but I've now tested on OSX Yosemite and Windows 10 Chrome, both latest versions, and in incognito mode. I shut down the computer every day.
Steps to repro:
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Android double back click for returning to previous activity
I have encountered an issue with android stack exchange client. Here are my steps:
Open digest email in gmail client
Click on a question
Stack exchange client with selected question opens
Click back ...
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Notifications return after hitting back button in browser
This may seem really trivial, but somehow it really annoys me.
I'm somewhat OCD, so I can't bear to have any unread notifications. Sometimes, when I'm reading a post, and I see a notification, I'll ...
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Using Back to view my Activity page shows me data that's almost 2 weeks old? [duplicate]
I was looking through some of my reviews because I wanted to know what happened to some questions I had reviewed earlier, and discovered clicking on a link from the Activity page then using the Back ...
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Please fix my back button
Here's a recipe for confusion:
Load a page on Stack Exchange.
Do anything that updates the page via JS―leave a comment, vote, etc.
Leave the page by following a link.
Use the browser's back button ...
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The browser's "Back" button cause problems with the review buttons
These are the steps to reproduce what I noticed.
I clicked on the link to review the suggested edits, and I was given https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/851165 as post to review
I ...
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Viewing suggested edits or reviews from user profile redirects to self, breaks "back" feature [closed]
This is happening to me in IE8 (not able to test in any other browsers at this time).
Steps to reproduce:
Go to user profile (any user, confirmed on self and other users)
Go to activity tab
View ...
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"Hot Network Questions" randomizes too much when navigation in browser history [duplicate]
I really love the "Hot Network Questions" (HNQ) as I love to look at what other communities do; in german I would say "Ich liebe es, über den Tellerrand zu schauen" (Love looking beyond my own's ...
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Review Beta First Posts: I'm Done disabled if browser Back button used
In the new First Posts review, if you take an action on the question, I'm Done becomes available to click on. However, after taking the action, if you click the browser's Back button and then Forward ...
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Make back/forward work on paginated lists
When viewing a list of my own questions, if I switch to page 2 of the list I can't go back to page 1 by clicking the "Back" button in the browser.
I understand this is by design, but can the back ...
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Weird button placement in iOS app
This may just be me, but the back/forward buttons (<>) in the iOS in-app browser seem too close to the refresh button (↻) and a little small. Just a thought.
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Browser's back button doesn't work correctly on the "Global Inbox for a user webpage"
My Firefox for Android (version 62.0b7) browser's back button doesn't work correctly on the Global Inbox for a user webpage (click here for your own) after you use the next or numbered buttons.
Once ...
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Hitting back in the browser does not remember my saved edits or comments [duplicate]
This appears to be a bug in StackOverflow and on other StackExchange sites. I only so far tested with Firefox:
Edit a question or answer, or add a comment, save it
Go to another page in the same tab
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Bug: Vote buttons associated with wrong answer when returning to previous page
Visit a question, read the answers.
Click on a link to some other page.
Return to the question page using the browser's back button.
Try to vote on an answer.
Reload the page.
See that the vote was ...
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Implement ajax back button support in the user page, paging [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
back arrow to recent activity
I always find it kind of annoying that the back button "breaks" when I am browsing through my questions and answers in the user page.
For ...
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When going back in the browser to where you've added a comment - the comment is missing [duplicate]
If I'm on an SE question page, and:
Add a comment to the question or to an answer
Visit another URL on the same browser tab
Press back
the comment I added is missing.
This is not a new issue, I've ...
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When browsing questions, back button always returns to page 1
Go to the list of questions (any tab)
Click on page X (other than the first)
Select a question
Click the browser's back button
You will now be back on page 1 of the list, instead of page X (which ...
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"Unread Message in your inbox" Notification not refreshes till page refresh
I am using Google Chrome. There are multiple tabs of Stack Overflow are open.
When there is any message arrives in Inbox then it appears at top left corner of every tab.
What I did is right-clicked on ...
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Click Back, Go to Main Page, Removed Questions are Grayed-Out, But Not Removed
Using Chrome, Windows XP:
Go to StackOverflow.com, click a question to view it, click back button to go back to StackOverflow.com.
My irrelevant questions are grayed out, but they are not removed. ...
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Tags page filter/search is out of sync when going "back" to it
Browser: Chrome 37.0.2062.122
Steps to reproduce:
Go to a site's tags page, e.g. https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags.
Type something in the “Type to find tags:” box.
Click on one of the tags, going ...
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'add/show # more comments' link broken after browsing back in review queue
In certain cases, the link 'add / show # more comments' under a review doesn't work. I can reliably reproduce this when doing the following:
Open a review you have already done (or one that is ...
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Back Button doesn't give me updated page [duplicate]
Here's the scenario:
I'll linger on a page for a short while, and upvotes, close-votes comments, edits, and other content will come in, and the page will update itself
I click on some link to ...
