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Old 05-14-2007, 03:21 PM
Fuzzy Logic
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RE: Useless back button

=?Utf-8?B?cGhhbnNlZQ==?= <phansee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> I am having the same problem as ProfessorPiggy. It just started in the
> last month or so and it is driving me crazy. The back button constantly
> takes me to the webpage expired message. Happens mostly on shopping
> sites. Contacted one webmaster and they said it was an ISP problem!
> It's interesting that it constantly happens with IE7 and infrequently
> with Firefox. Haven't been able to locate any support information that
> has helped to date. If it can't be remedied I will definitely make
> Firefox my browser.


Check your IE settings under Tools>Internet Options>General>Browsing history>Settings>Check for newer
versions of stored pages

Make sure it's NOT set to Every time I visit the webpage. I would suggest trying Every time I start Internet
Explorer.

> "Dave Barkshire" wrote:
>
>> I'm having the same problem with a simple asp.net 2 application. The
>> interesting thing is that on my local machine there is no problem but
>> when accessing the website from the ISPs server then there is a
>> problem. The client browser (IE7) and machine are the same and the
>> application is the same. This suggests that there might be something in
>> IIS that might be different? These web pages do no have an 'expire'
>> clause in the HTML HEAD.
>>
>>
>> "ProfessorPiggy" wrote:
>>
>> > I am using IE7 after using Firefox (god forgive me) for several
>> > months. Maybe I am just used to the way that software works, but what
>> > is the only thing that is really bugging me about IE7 is the useless
>> > back button. When I click back, I want to go back, I don't want to
>> > redownload the page, or get a 'webpage has expired' message - I want
>> > to go back, to exactly how the webpage was before I went forward.
>> >
>> > I can't be the only one who is annoyed that any input fields are
>> > wiped if we make a mistake or loose the connection - so my suggestion
>> > is, make the back button do what it is suppose to do, and not reload
>> > the page, but just go back to how tha page was.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
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