Forum bug: Browser Back button doesn't work

You have to press Back twice to go from a message thread back to the forum main page.
System: Windows 7, Browser: Firefox 16.0.2

Original topic http://forums.adobe.com/thread/988260
There was also a topic recently where John C. explained why this occurs, and why this cannot be fixed, but I cannot find that topic now.
For me this is one of the most annoying bugs on the Internet ever! If you spend a lot of time in the Adobe forums, you start to automatically double-click the back button. Then when you go somewhere else, your fingers continue double-clicking, with quite idiotic results!
Another side effect of that bug is that after you double-backed, the browser's forward button disappears. This can also be quite annoying if you just quickly went back to check something, then want to go forward where you came from.

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How come my Back Button Doesn't Work on Some Websites? It just keeps redisplaying the same page over and over. Example:
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Back button behaviour can be pretty wierd. I usually use the keyboard combination, but for some reason it doesn't work on PDF's and I have to end up using the graphical back button.
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To respond to your comments first of all, the Bookmarks toolbar has been removed in Firefox 4.0
The back button should work as it normally does, but you can also right click it and select it from the list.
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I have submitted a bug report to ProBoards, but they cannot duplicate the problem I am having, so I am submitting this here in hopes you can find a solution.
At ProBoards Support and another PB forum while doing searches I found this problem, which continues with repeated testing over the past week or so:
url: http://support.proboards.com/search
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I have tested this over and over again, disabling plugins, and nothing seems to alter the malfunctioning of the back button when I am doing this search function at ProBoards.
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Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache. In order to try to fix these problems, the first step is to clear both cookies and the cache.
Note: ''This will temporarily log you out of all sites you're logged in to.''
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#Go to Firefox > History > Clear recent history or (if no Firefox button is shown) go to Tools > Clear recent history.
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WHOWWW...
suitable for Flash Player 11.6
Back that down to as low a version as possible... 10 or so if possible.
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Hi azaral
Take a look at Project > Quiz Manager... > Quiz
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Hi
First, get rid of your designer, the page design/code is a mess.
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// prevent caching these pages at clients.
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You are having problems, because we set the response headers to tell the browser
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original state.
-John Bimson
"Jay" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
I developed a simple portlet that uses webflow navigation to navigate
within a
portlet. I made this portlet visible on a portal's home page. When
I view my
main portal page, the URL is "http://localhost:7501/samplePortal/index.jsp
In this page I can see my portlet. When I click on a link inside of
the portlet,
it takes me to the page I want. Then, when I click the browser's back
button
to go back to the previous page(main portal page), it doesn't work.
The URL changes
back to "http://localhost:7501/samplePortal/index.jsp", but portlet itself
doesn't
take me to the previous page. Anybody have any ideas? I am guessing
it's because
the wfevent is null, but how do I resolve this problem?

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Hi Eugbug,
You can't install other web browser. Please make sure to install the latest software then try to re-launch the browser.
If the issue is still presist. We kindly recommend visiting our Sony Global Web site for information on contacting the Sony Support Center in your region at http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/Support/.
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As I start Firefox, using yahoo.com as my homepage, upon going from the homepage to any link on the page, the back button becomes inoperable

Back button behaviour can be pretty wierd. I usually use the keyboard combination, but for some reason it doesn't work on PDF's and I have to end up using the graphical back button.
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In another case there was this page in Amazon that wouldn't allow me to go back to. Everytime I went to that page the browser to automatically kick me to the next page. I had to disable javascript to work around that problem.

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Any entries in the session history of that tab?
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Hi,
You can try the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=search NoScript] add-on which may help.

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