Warp wrote:
> St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>> Web pages that refuse the 'back' button.
> 
>   I have noticed Firefox fixed this problem some time ago. In it, instead
> of the back button going strictly to the previous page, it goes to the
> previous user-specified page. In other words, if a page immediately
> redirects to another page using javascript or meta refresh or whatever,
> Firefox's back button will skip that intermediate page when going back.
> 
>   Quite handy. (I don't understand why *all* browsers don't do this.
> It just doesn't make sense to go back to a page which effectively
> immediately goes forward again.)

Yes, it's quite handy with povray news web interface itself, which 
constantly reloads the pages for updates.  Someday I was browsing it 
with IE and after I came back to it in a while I had to go back several 
times in order to get to the main page.  A non-issue in FF.

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