Pressing Back Refreshes?
01-10-06, 04:44 PM
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Pressing Back Refreshes?
Ok, This has bugged me since I became a member of BikeForums in May. When I'm reading a post, then click back to go back to the list of threads, the list is refreshed. I don't want this to happen. I want to load up the forum I'm interested in and just click through the threads I want. Flying around using the back button - not waiting on the sometimes painfully slow servers to show me the latest bumped threads. if I want the latest threads, I'll refresh!
The automatic refresh not only slows the page load for me, it also increases your server load. In addition, it often makes it just a bit harder to find the threads I'm interested in. I load up a forum, see three threads I'm interested in. I click the first one, read, press back to click the second one, only now it's bumped further down the page or higher up...
I use other forums that seem to be based on the same software that DONT refresh when I click back. Is there some sort of user setting I can check to prevent the refresh? If it matters, I'm running Firefox 1.5
The automatic refresh not only slows the page load for me, it also increases your server load. In addition, it often makes it just a bit harder to find the threads I'm interested in. I load up a forum, see three threads I'm interested in. I click the first one, read, press back to click the second one, only now it's bumped further down the page or higher up...
I use other forums that seem to be based on the same software that DONT refresh when I click back. Is there some sort of user setting I can check to prevent the refresh? If it matters, I'm running Firefox 1.5
01-15-06, 05:29 PM
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Derek, I am looking into this, i think this is a problem with the version of software i am using. I hope to upgrade soon.
01-21-06, 08:45 PM
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Thanks, Joe. And yes, I try to remember to use tabs, but when you end up with 10+ tabs, Firefox starts chewing up some SERIOUS memory! Maybe I should go to Opera...
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
I just open them in a new tab. Much easier.
