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rdowns

rdowns

macrumors Penryn
Original poster
Jul 11, 2003
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For the past few days, when I hit my back button to go back a page or exit a forum, it is not taking me back to the spot on the page where I was earlier. It takes me to the top of the page. Seems to happen about 75% of the time and in many different areas of the site. BTW, using Safari, latest build. Anyone else experiencing this?
 
MacDawg

MacDawg

Moderator emeritus
Mar 20, 2004
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4,503
"Between the Hedges"
Sometimes there is a "lag" time before it relocates position for me. I attibuted that to the busy server, but what do I know. I was just glad to avoid the "busy server" screen! :rolleyes:

Woof, Woof - Dawg
 
Doctor Q

Doctor Q

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Staff member
Sep 19, 2002
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Los Angeles
The forum software was updated to vBulletin 3.0.4 last week. I've noticed a few little differences in behavior too.
 
Hoef

Hoef

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Jul 11, 2004
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Houston, TX..... (keep walking)
rdowns said:
For the past few days, when I hit my back button to go back a page or exit a forum, it is not taking me back to the spot on the page where I was earlier. It takes me to the top of the page. Seems to happen about 75% of the time and in many different areas of the site. BTW, using Safari, latest build. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Wow it is like finding a buddy who was also taken by aliens .... I have the same thing and it drives me nuts. I do have it with more sites and at first I thought it was a difference between firefox Mac vs PC. It must be a setting but haven't found it yet. I sure hope it is not a site specific server setting.
 
rdowns

rdowns

macrumors Penryn
Original poster
Jul 11, 2003
27,397
12,521
Are you ever going to fix this?

This problem is making reading the forums a hassle.
 
Doctor Q

Doctor Q

Administrator
Staff member
Sep 19, 2002
39,782
7,513
Los Angeles
I don't think there is anything we can fix. As far as I know, this is just how this version of vBulletin works. I've noticed that it handles cached pages differently, allowing browsers to use a local copy, which isn't correct if you go back to a page that has since changed. So I end up refreshing more often if I know I'm returning to a page that has new posts.
 
liketom

liketom

macrumors 601
Apr 8, 2004
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Lincoln,UK
i often get the site is too busy message and also problems loading the forums it will just hang there for ages ? maybe it this piece of crud windblows box im using at work here though ?

o , on a different note i love the message you get when looking at applelegal.com with a Microsoft browser THAT is too funny
 
arn

arn

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Apr 9, 2001
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rdowns said:
For the past few days, when I hit my back button to go back a page or exit a forum, it is not taking me back to the spot on the page where I was earlier. It takes me to the top of the page. Seems to happen about 75% of the time and in many different areas of the site. BTW, using Safari, latest build. Anyone else experiencing this?
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This isn't anything we've done differently... haven't changed anything. I think it's more of a browser behavior.

arn
 
rdowns

rdowns

macrumors Penryn
Original poster
Jul 11, 2003
27,397
12,521
arn said:
This isn't anything we've done differently... haven't changed anything. I think it's more of a browser behavior.

arn
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The server update seems to have fixed this problem.
 
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