Back Browser Button Question

novicegeek

novicegeek

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Hi all, no problem here, just a question. So if you've got people in desparate need of help, just pass me by.

Every once in a while I run into an irritant. When I visit a web page, then want to navigate back to where I was, I push the back browser button (I'm in IE). But instead of going back to my home page, it just seems to refresh and directs me right back to the page I was trying to get away from.

I have to hit the little arrow next to the navigation buttons and pull down the home page. But when I do, I've noticed that there seems to be a URL between the page I'm on and the home page.

So here's the question. Why does it do this? What's going on? Is it something with the web pages I'm visiting? As I said before, no problems, just curious as all get out.

Thanks for your insights.
 
Occasionally when you click a link to a page, the URL that is linked is redirecting you to the actual page. So there is like an "in-between" page, so to speak. When you hit the back button, it reloads that "in-between" page, which is set to automatically load the page you just left, so it looks like you didn't go anywhere.

Sometimes double-clicking the back button can by pass that.
 
novicegeek said:
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So here's the question. Why does it do this? What's going on? Is it something with the web pages I'm visiting?
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As Troncoso pointed out, there is a redirect page. Sometimes Google will put them in, but more often then not its the website itself. When its the latter, its usually a cheap gimick to keep people looking at their site (and reloading ads/clicks).

Whats a real pain the butt is when they do it on mobile sites where the user cant press the drop down array next to 'back'. I need to find a plugin that stops that bs. For now I just block those sites and don't visit them anymore.
 
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