When I hit the back button to return to a previous page...

...I get the dialog box: Confirm: Firefox must send information that will repeat any action (such as a search or order confirmation) that was performed earlier. Resend or Cancel, Is there any way to disable this very annoying feature (for me anyway),
I know what I want to do and this annoys the hell out of me.

You get an alert about resending POST data if you go back to a page or refresh a page that was previously requested from the server by submitting form data via a (hidden) POST form. 
Firefox can only make sure to get the same page by resending that POST form. 
Firefox doesn't know what that form data means, so Firefox asks for confirmation before resending that form data as such an action can cause you to repeat an action and buy another item or post a message another time. 
A way to prevent that pop-up is not to use the Back button, but to open links from a page that was requested from a server by sending a POST form in a new tab (window) with a middle-click or a Ctrl + left-click. 
Then you can close that tab or window to go back.

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I have a currently updated Mac that's fast as lightning. I use eBay A LOT. In the newest version when I hit the back button it takes me to the original "new tab" page. Please don't make me use Chrome or Safari, I love you guys

Hello,
I have a Mac that's fast as lightning running on the latest version of OS X. I use eBay A LOT. In the newest version of Firefox that I just downloaded when I hit the back button it takes me to the original "new tab" page. Please don't make me use Chrome or Safari, I love you guys

Thank you for your kind words on the Tablet, as this is the only product mentioned that is supported on this forum, The forums here are for Home Electronics and Computers, and do not reach the Sony smart phone community.
The Sony smart phone Support Forum is the place for Sony (formerly Sony Ericsson) users from around the world to get help and help others:
your very in depth suggestions and comments would best be heard at the following forum that is dedicated exclusively to the Sony smart phone community.
http://talk.sonyericsson.com/community/support

When i hit the back button, the web page can not reload ! and this button is disable ! I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid ! and I've just upgrade to firefox 4 RC. Sorry for my poor English skill !

When i hit the back button, the web page can not reload ! and this button is disable ! I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid ! and I've just upgrade to firefox 4 RC. Sorry for my poor English skill !

In Firefox 23 versions and later the keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and it is no longer possible to specify the search engine for the location bar via the keyword.URL pref. 
The search engine that is used on the location bar and on the about:home page is the search engine that is selected in the search Bar on the Navigation Toolbar. 
Current Firefox versions do not update the about:home home page until you refresh the page (future versions will do this automatically without a refresh) and that is what happens if you use the Back key.
You can install the Keyword Search extension to specify with search engine to use for the location bar and which search engine to use for the about:home page via the Options/Preferences windows of this extension, accessible via the about:addons page.
* Keyword Search: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keyword-search/

One question I am looking for help with is, when you hit the history button I want my last fifty pages to show up instead of just fifteen. Is it possible to

one question I am looking for help with is, when you hit the history button I want my last fifty pages to show up instead of just fifteen. Is it possible to change that setting?
TY

The History menu can only show that fixed maximum of 15 as that is hard coded.
Maybe this extension helps:
*History Submenus Ⅱ: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/history-submenus-2/

The back button to return to a precious page disappeared, how do i do so?

i cannot locate the button to return to a previous page, or even go forward.

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in full screen mode (press F11 or Fn + F11 to toggle; Mac: Command+Shift+F).
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-to-use-full-screen
If you are in full screen mode then hover the mouse to the top of the screen to make the Navigation Toolbar and Tab bar appear. Click the Maximize button (top right corner of the Navigation Toolbar) to leave full screen mode or right-click empty space on a toolbar and choose "Exit Full Screen Mode" or press the F11 key.
Make sure that all toolbars are visible.
*"3-bar" Firefox menu button > Customize > Show/Hide Toolbars
*View > Toolbars Tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar
*Right-click empty toolbar area
*if missing items are in the Customize palette then drag them back from the Customize window on the toolbar
*if you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the Customize palette then click the Restore Defaults button to restore the default toolbar setup
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customize-firefox-controls-buttons-and-toolbars

It seems that when i hit the home button it brings up a previous webpage i visited, rather disturbingly it is my bank website and tries, i must say tries to login... but does not as my bank has many firewalls. but what is going on and can you help me?

I got on this morning to check my balance as i get a direct deposit from my work. Once i checked my bank i logged off as normal. then hit the home button. It did not direct me to my home. yahoo.com but went instead to msn.com. so i went into my options and reset my home page. Now when i hit my home page it grabs my bank page and adds a new tab to try to open my bank page while i am at my home page. so i must either have some spyware either through a webpage i visited or your software has a leak somewhere someone cracked. please help me with this if it is indeed a problem with mozilla.

I did some googling and found alot of topics from you on this issue, to me it simply seems like on of the connectors is broken or loose.

A tab continuously pops up when I hit the back button, or type in a new url? Is there a fix for this?

It goes to different websites, yet all have the same template. I've tried deleting Firefox and reinstalling. I've placed my PC in safe mode and hit the system restore. I've used multiple anti-viruses and malware software and nothing.
It only happens in Firefox. My Chrome, Safari, and the terrible IE works perfect.

Use one of these methods to open the tab history list and bypass the page with that gives the alert:
* Right click on the Back or Forward button
* Hold down the left mouse button on the enabled Back or Forward button until the list opens
You can look at this extension:
* Backward Forward History Dropdown: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforedrop/

I clicked on the "menu" link on a restaurant's website and **** came up. When I hit the back button, it just went to more ****. Could my phone be hacked via this link?

I clicked on the "menu" tab of a restaurant website but **** came up. I clicked the back arrow but instead of taking me back to the restaurant site, it was more ****. Is my iPhone at risk of being hacked or infected by this incident?

Your iPhone is not hacked, unless it has been jailbroken by you or someone else using your device.
The website you visited may have been hacked, however, so that the link you clicked redirects you to that adult site instead. Contact the restaurant and let them know what's happening.

How do I keep my place on a page when I hit the back button?

In other words, say I'm scrolling down a list of links from 1-30. I hit link #8, read it, and then want to go back and continue scrolling down the list. When I go back, though, Firefox has lost my place and sends me to the top of the list. I think this started happening with the latest version of FF. Anyone have a fix? Thanks!

Interesting. You're right. It doesn't happen when I click away from this site and then return. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. Maybe it's the specific website I was thinking of and not Firefox. Unfortunately, I have to use that site all the time for work. I'll try contacting their webmaster. Thanks for your help.

When I hit the back button twice, it goes back two pages and when I close one tab it closes two tabs. How can I get rid of this issue?

The title pretty much sums it up. Also, I know it's not my mouse.

Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
How about with a new, empty profile? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Safari 6 is slow when hitting the back button

I notice that on Moutain Lion Safari appears quite slow when I hit the back button.
Say I'm on some news site, click on a story but then want to go back after 10 seconds, it appears as if it's loading the whole site where I came from again.
Is there some setting to change this?
Also with version 6, it appears that Safari is really waiting for each and every object to be finished before displaying anything.
I think this kind of was always the case with Safari, but before on Safari 5, it felt much quicker here and I'd appreciate some rendering before every image is loaded.

Same here. After clicking the BACK button in Safari I get old copies. I am using Ipad 16GB wifi-only.
Issue started with IOS5. It worked fine before.
When the old page is shown, a refresh helps as workaround. Untill Applie fixes it.

Why do google search results reset to match the search bar terms when i use the back button?

Since the update to FF 23, the list of Google search results clears and the on-page search box is reset to match the address bar search box when I hit the back button to re-view the results list after checking a result.
To see this issue for yourself, set your search provider to Google and make sure Instant is on. Type a search term into the search bar and press enter. A google page appears with your results list. Now, change your search terms or conduct a new search directly from the google page (without using the FF search bar). Click on the first result in the search list, then click the back button to return to the search results so you can check a differest result. As FF goes back to the google page, it will reset the on-page search box to match the FF search bar (although you were no longer on this search) and all search results will disappear, replaced by the message "Press enter to search". Pressing enter reconducts your old search, not the one you were on.
This is incredibly maddening since searching for something requires frequent use of the back button to check through the list of search results, and then frequently trying the search again with slightly different terms. Although it sounds like a Google issue, it did not occur on the old firefox and has me wanting to revert. I tried to revert to the old search function via the "keyword search" addon, but this did not fix my issue. Is there a way to force FF to go back to the actual google search page I was just on instead of conducting a new google search from the FF search box when I hit the back button?

In Firefox 23 versions and later the keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and it is no longer possible to specify the search engine for the location bar via the keyword.URL pref. 
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Current Firefox versions do not update the about:home home page until you refresh the page (future versions will do this automatically without a refresh) and that is what happens if you use the Back key.
You can install the Keyword Search extension to specify with search engine to use for the location bar and which search engine to use for the about:home page via the Options/Preferences windows of this extension, accessible via the about:addons page.
* Keyword Search: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keyword-search/

Why does my form data gets cleared out when clicking on the back button.

Can someone explain why does my form selections get cleared out when clicking on the back button.
I have a JSP page that displays a form with some selections and text boxes. I populate the page and submit the request. The action on the submit call another jsp page, which processes the data and displays the results via a <jsp:include> statement which calls the results page. When clicking on the back button from the results page, it returns me to the form page, but the selections are cleared out.
1. Is there something in my calling of the pages that causes this behavior and can I prevent it?
I notice that the behavior is different when using the IE 6.0 version Netscape 7.1. IE clears the page Netscape 7.1 retains the settings.
If I cannot prevent this behavior does that mean I will have to save the state of the form data. And if I have to save the form data, what would be the easiest method of doing this. I'm a beginner to JSP and Java, but have some ASP experience. I don't understand why the back button in a JSP request clears the form data but a regular HTML page does not can someone explain?
THANKS.

the browser doesn't have to remember what you submitted and fill that back in.
you can't prevent it unless you can ensure a new request to the server in which you can fill the default values in there.

I purchased a year of adobe cc today. when the screen came up to tell me it was processing my payment, not to hit the "back" button or refresh the page as it could take a few minutes. That was 7 hours ago. The help chat told me it would take 24 hours to p

i purchased a year of adobe cc today. The screen came up to tell me it was processing my payment, not to hit the "back" button or refresh the page as it could take a few minutes. That was 7 hours ago. I contacted the help chat department and was told it would take 24 hours to process. Is this normal?? Why would the screen tell me "a few minutes" if it's actually 24 hours? Has anyone else had this problem? I am so tempted to just refresh the page and try my luck with my credit card canceling a second payment should it happen. THAT might be faster.

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Help! My email push isn't working even when I hit the refresh button!

Please help me. I got a Palm Pixi in December. It worked perfectly until about 2 weeks ago. It suddenly stopped pushing my email, including when I hit the refresh button! I spent many many hours on the phone with both verizon and palm, we tried starting and restarting the phone, removing and adding my accounts, we even tried a partial wipe of the phone. Nothing worked. So both verizon and palm assured me that my brand new phone must be defective, they sent me a new palm pixi promising me that my email push problems were a fluke and that it would never happen again. I got my new phone a week ago, it worked fine until yesterday- the same push problem is back! I've been on live chat with a palm technician for almost 2 hours now, we've set and reset my email settings, we've reset the account settings in the phone, and it still doesn't work!
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First verify that all your email settings are correct as they may have changed.
Service provider settings frequently change. If your email account was working but you are currently experiencing problems, check with your service provider to find out whether any of the account settings have changed. You may need to manually change some email settings on your device.
Next, update the PRL on the device by dialing *228 send and option 2.
If the problems persist, try doing a Master Reset on the device.
Master Reset
Tap and slide finger up on center gesture area
Slide screen to the left twice
Tap Device Info
Tap and slide screen up to show Reset Options
Tap Reset Options
Select from the following Options:
Restart - Will restart device
Shut down - Will power off device
Partial Erase - Warning: Erases applications you installed and all application settings and data. Does not erase personal files stored on the USB Drive.
Full Erase - Warning: Erases applications you installed and all application settings and data. Also erases personal files stored on the USB Drive.

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