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317650 2005-01-24 22:07:00 Is there an extintion for Firefox that allows the page to stay where it was when you press back?
eg. I'm on trademe, and i click into an auction, and then i press back and i'm at the top of the page, but i want to be where i was before i clicked into the page.

Any help would be cool.

Daniel
dwnz (5333)
317651 2005-01-24 22:25:00 Umm it does it by default.

Try some other sites - TradeMe might set a no-cache rule or something which prevents this.

Edit: From the source of their page, yes they do: META HTTP-EQUIV="pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"

Edit 2: This is actually a good idea, as if you refreshed an auction and it reloaded a cached page showing you were in the lead incorrectly you'd be annoyed.

Edit 3: No doubt someone will turn up shortly shouting black and blue about SCAMMME!!!!!!!!!!!111111
ninja (1671)
317652 2005-01-25 02:14:00 It doesn't go back up to the top in internet explorer dwnz (5333)
317653 2005-01-25 02:47:00 That's because of Internet Explorer's cache problems. It's not a feature Daniel, it's a bug. It may be a 'handy' bug - until you see the ugly side.

IE seems to love to cache pages at any cost, it hates actually reloading a page. This is especially bad in sites like TradeMe, when you can be fed outdated information from the browser's cache.

You just have to press Ctrl+F5 to get around this, but like in Firefox that will send you to the top of the page.
george12 (7)
317654 2005-01-25 03:02:00 It doesn't go back up to the top in internet explorer
FireFox > *
ninja (1671)
317655 2005-01-25 03:04:00 Huh? dwnz (5333)
317656 2005-01-25 04:11:00 *sigh*

Firefox is better than all other browsers is what he is trying to tell you Daniel.

> = greater than
* = all (wildcard)

Understand?

Good.
george12 (7)
317657 2005-01-25 04:17:00 Is there an extintion for Firefox that allows the page to stay where it was when you press back?
eg. I'm on trademe, and i click into an auction, and then i press back and i'm at the top of the page, but i want to be where i was before i clicked into the page.
I hate that particular "feature" of Firefox as well. :(

Fortunately Opera does what you want to do, ie return to where you were on the previous page. Not sure if it refreshes rather than use a cached copy but I would think that it does. Would be a very simple task to make it do so if it doesn't. :)
FoxyMX (5)
317658 2005-01-25 05:02:00 I hate that particular "feature" of Firefox as well. :(
It's not a feature. It's called STANDARDS COMPLIANCE.
ninja (1671)
317659 2005-01-25 07:10:00 It's not a feature. It's called STANDARDS COMPLIANCE.
Are you saying that a browser is standards compliant when it jumps to the top of the top of the page when you return to the previous page you were viewing? :confused:

I would have thought that in this case the requirement would be to not display a preloaded cached page in order to be standards compliant and I have just tested and confirmed that Opera is definitely following that standard - the page is refreshed upon returning.

It is a very handy feature to have it return to the previous location when using the "back" button and is something I sorely miss in Firefox.
FoxyMX (5)
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