How to go back when FF refuses to go back?

Matrix Mole matrixm at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 18:41:11 MST 2009


On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Charles Jones
<charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
> Josef Lowder wrote:
>> Sometimes when I go from one website to another, it seems that some
>> websites lock you in and won't let you use the back arrow to go back
>> to a previous website.  Is there some way to override that block and
>> get back to the immediately previous website?
> I *hate* sites that do that! It's not a very scientific answer, but what
> usually works for me is to repeatedly click the back button *very*
> quickly...I think the idea is to basically interrupt the javascript and
> get a back click in before it reloads. If there is an easier way that is
> easier to reproduce I would love to find out.

What generally works for me is to right click on the back button so
you get the list of sites you've visited and then just select the site
you want from the list (even if it's just the site before your current
one).


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