Firefox 4 will not activate the "Go Back One Page" arrow

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When I have a page on the internet and try to go to page two of the article the arrow (in left hand corner of page) is inactive

Note that some sites won't allow "go back"(which usually is bad site design, but that's another question).
Often developers do this by using JavaScript. You may test a site by temporarily [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Javascript turning off JavaScript in Firefox] which would then not honour JavaScript code by that site.
Of course turning off JavaScript in your browser may reduce functionality on some sites, but security-wise it would be a good thing ...

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Before Firefox 5, the "go back one page" history would show 10 or more prior pages for each tab, so that I could go back quite a way in retracing my browsing steps. With Firefox 5.0.1 and 6, however, the list of prior pages seems to have been capped at 5. I would like to configure Firefox to remember 20 or 25 prior pages for each tab. Is there any way to do that?

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You can check to see whether extensions are disabled or need an update on the Add-ons page. Either:
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If you used the Reset feature (or Firefox automatically did a reset due to some problem during upgrading), you will need to reinstall missing extensions. The reset feature creates a folder on the desktop named Old Firefox Data. Do you have that folder? There may be data you can recover from it.
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The 'go back one page' and 'go froward one page' buttons do not work (they're light gray as opposed to dark gray) and neither does the 'back' button after right clicking. They worked fine in Firefox 3 but do not in version 4

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On both computers, I'm running FF 7.0.1, but the problem has been with me on my iMac ever since FF 5. Both computers have the same add-ons, and as far as I can tell all settings are the same as well. But something obviously is limiting the number of pages that are retained in the "go back one page" history. I've searched in vain repeatedly for some setting that might explain the problem. I would appreciate any guidance you can provide. I've set forth below my list of extensions:
- Abine 0.739
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- Apture 2.0.0 (Disabled)
- AutoPager 0.7.0.0
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- Backward/Forward History Dropdown 0.2.3 (Disabled)
- Better Gmail 2 1.2
- BetterPrivacy 1.67
- Boomerang for GMail 1.0
- CoolPreviews 3.5
- DictionarySearch 7.0.0
- Download Statusbar 0.9.8
- Extension List Dumper 1.15.2
- Google Docs Viewer 1.8 (Disabled)
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- Greasemonkey 0.9.11
- Jureeka! 4.0
- LastPass 1.75.0
- NoSquint 2.1.2
- OptimizeGoogle 0.78.2
- PDF Download 3.0.0.2 (Disabled)
- Read It Later 2.1.3
- Readability 1.11 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Safari View 1.3.4 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Save as PDF 1.5 (Disabled)
- Screenshot Pimp 3.4 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Session Manager 0.7.7 (Disabled)
- Shorten URL (Bit.ly) 0.68
- Show my Password 2.0
- Stylish 1.2.3
- Tab History Menu 2.1.1 (Disabled)
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- Test Pilot 1.2
- Thumbnail Zoom 1.4.3
- TinEye Reverse Image Search 1.1 (Disabled)
- TooManyTabs 1.3.7 (Disabled)
- Unwrap Text 0.5.4
- URL Fixer 3.1
- Xmarks 4.0.0

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If I open another URL from my homepage, the "go back one page" button is grayed out so I can't get back to my home page.

This problem only started recently.
Opening another web page (URL) from my homepage always opens in the same tab and the "go back one page" button is gray and does not work. If I open a series of web pages in the same tab the green "back" button is green. Clicking on the "recent pages" down arrow will allow me to go back, but only to the page after the home page.
In other words, after browsing, I can get back to the opening page (my home page) only by clicking on the house icon but not by using the "recent pages" function.
Is there an option that changed after the last update?

Do you see any tab history if you right click the Back or Forward button?
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

The "Go back one page" button on the Navigation toolbar doesn't work on certain web pages.

== Issue
==
Firefox is having problems with certain web sites
== Description
==
The "Go back one page" button on the Navigation toolbar doesn't seem to work on certain pages. On clicking this button, the focus stays on the same page and does not move to the previous page. The previous page does not appear even in the right-click context menu of the Back button. However, I am able to go back one page using Internet Explorer.
== URL of affected sites
==
http://justdial.com/
http://southernrailway.gov.in/sr/indexhome.jsp
== Troubleshooting information
==
Application Basics
Name
Firefox
Version
3.6.3
Profile Directory
Open Containing Folder
Installed Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
Kaspersky URL Advisor
9.0.0.736
true
[email protected]
Java Console
6.0.14
true
Java Console
6.0.17
true
Java Console
6.0.20
true
McAfee SiteAdvisor
3.1
true
Java Quick Starter
1.0
true
[email protected]
Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) extension
9.4.0.5
true
Adblock Plus
1.2
true
DownloadHelper
4.7.3
true
FEBE
6.3.3.2
true
{4BBDD651-70CF-4821-84F8-2B918CF89CA3}
Flagfox
4.0.6
true
{1018e4d6-728f-4b20-ad56-37578a4de76b}
Lazarus: Form Recovery
2.0.5
true
[email protected]
WeatherBug
2.0.0.4
true
{3EC9C995-8072-4fc0-953E-4F30620D17F3}
WOT
20100503
true
Modified Preferences
Name
Value
accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
0
browser.places.importBookmarksHTML
false
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2
browser.startup.homepage
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:1.9.2.3
extensions.lastAppVersion
3.6.3
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
places.last_vacuum
1276949273
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
true
security.warn_viewing_mixed
false
== Firefox version
==
3.6.3
== Operating system
==
Windows XP
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
== Plugins installed
==
*-Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
*6.0.12.448
*RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
*RealJukebox Netscape Plugin
*Winamp Application Detector
*Default Plug-in
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.3.2"
*NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
*Provides additional functionality on Facebook. See our web site for details.
*Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5
*Picasa plugin
*Yahoo Application State Plugin version 1.0.0.7
*3.0.40818.0
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers
*Npdsplay dll
*DRM Store Netscape Plugin
*DRM Netscape Network Object

Try to open the right-click context menu of the Back button and see if you can go back further.
The current active entry in that list has a bullet in front of it.
If you hover an entry in that session history list then it shows the direction by adding an arrow at the left.
You can left click an item to open it in the current tab or middle-click or Ctrl left-click an entry in that list to open that link in new tab, just like you can with other links.

My "go back one page " arrow has not been working what should i do to get working

my "go back one page " arrow has not been working what should i do to get working
i thank you

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After my hard drive crashed and had to be replaced, Adobe will not activate the copy of Photoshop on the same machine it was originally on. I paid for it, why can't I use it?

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See also:
*Backward Forward History Dropdown: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforedrop/

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Firefox 4 will not activate the "Go Back One Page" arrow

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