Firefox back button

[cocodrilo]

Is the round back button at the upper left of the Firefox browser supposed to work all the time? For me it seldom works at all, I usually have to go the History menu if I want to go back to a previous webpage.

I have Firefox 18.01, but I recall once reinstalling a previous version because of this problem. Reinstalling didn't fix it then, so I doubt there's any fix now.

No make matters worse, I recall that Firefox used to have a "Close Tab" you could click on to go back to the previous page, like IE has, but some genius at Firefox did away with that.

Anyone else have this problem of getting to a previous page with Firefox?

[Juggernautz]

Have you tried Google Chrome?

[cocodrilo]

Originally Posted by Juggernautz

Have you tried Google Chrome?

No, but I think I'll try it. Thanks.

[SteelGator]

If you have add-ons installed, have you tried disabling the add-ons? One of them might be interfering.

Also, some web pages (like photo galleries in some newspaper web pages) use this weird advertising network that makes it hard to use the back button. You have to hit the button 5 or 6 times before it actually goes back to a previous page.

So also try this: Go to google.com. In Firefox's address field manually type in "gatorzone.com". When that page loads, try the back button. Does it work?

[cocodrilo]

Originally Posted by SteelGator

If you have add-ons installed, have you tried disabling the add-ons? One of them might be interfering.

I don't recall adding anything other than Adblock Plus, and the problem goes back longer than that.

So also try this: Go to google.com. In Firefox's address field manually type in "gatorzone.com". When that page loads, try the back button. Does it work?

Yes, it works.

[SteelGator]

Originally Posted by cocodrilo

Yes, it works.

So it appears to be limited to certain websites. The cause is probably what I said in my previous post about sites that use annoying advertising schemes, or are poorly coded, or both.