"Back" button in browser - strange behaviour

[James]

Perhaps I hadn't noticed this before, but I seem to get almost a random event when I use the "back" button in my browser (IE6) once I've read a thread here.

Sometimes I get the navigation at the top and no main page. Sometimes I get a php error. Sometimes I get a "warning, page has expired" (I'd expect that after posting a reply, but not normally...). Almost never do I get the page of topics.

Clicking on the breadcrumb navigation at the top of the page always works.

Any ideas?

[Tannin]

Must be an IE 6.0 special, James. I've never had that, and I regularly use:

Opera 6.0 Win 2000
IE 5.0 Win 2000
Mozilla 0.99 OS/2

And sometimes use:

Navigator 2.02 OS/2
Communicator 4.61 OS/2
Navigator 4.08 Win 2000
Mozilla 0.99 Win 2000

Or else therer is something funny going on.

[Handruin]

I use IE 6.0 all the time with the site and I've never had the problems you've mentioned, except maybe once or twice on the expired page instance.

What kind of php error do you get with this?

[Mercutio]

I've found the back button to be entirely useless both here and on SR, across all browsers and platforms.

Usually I get a "page is expired" error.

[Pradeep]

It gives me the shits too. The back button here and at SR.com give me an older version of whatever it was I came from, i.e. I will get an old version of the threads view page. The only way to get an uptodate version is to hit the navigation shortcut or hit the Go button. If this could be fixed it would save me having to refreash or other useless crap like that.

[Pradeep]

When I say back button I mean the back button on my mouse.

[Mercutio]

On SR I don't mind so much, since I know every refresh brings a different ad and maybe a little more money to SR.

[James]

What kind of php error do you get with this?
Well of course now when I do it it works fine. :) I'll let you know when the next one occurs.

Wallace and Grommit, yay!

[Cliptin]

I never got page expires until I started surfing on NT. IE6 only.