[WEB4LIB] RE: going "back" from sites

[Jean Hewlett]

In my experience, the most common reason why the Back button will not work is that the current web page has opened in a
new browser window. This means that your history and Go menu start fresh. The Back and Forward buttons gray out, because
you have nowhere to go.

The remedy is to close the new browser window, or to shrink it .  When you close it, the old browser window appears,
with the previous web page and all of your history intact. If you shrink it, you will see the old browser window hiding
behind it, and it takes only a mouse click to switch between windows.

Jean Hewlett
University of San Francisco / North Bay Cooperative Library System
hewlett at usfca.edu

Michael VanHouten wrote:

> I find that using the 'Alt-left arrow' keys more effective sometimes than trying to hit 'back' quickly several times.
>
> Mike
>
> Michael Van Houten
> Assistant Director of Libraries and Head
>      of Public Services
> Stockwell-Mudd Libraries
> Albion College
> 602 E. Cass St.
> Albion, MI 49224
> 517-629-0382
> mvanhouten at albion.edu
>
> >>> "David (David King)" <David at KCLIBRARY.ORG> 02/11/00 11:59AM >>>
> > I would like to know why with some web pages or sites,
> > when you click on the browser's "back" button, it will
> > not let you go back and you are forever stuck in this
> > web site or page.
>
> If the site has changed addresses on a page, and then
> created automatic, instant forwarding from the old page
> to the new page, that would create what you're describing.
> It can be very frustrating! Sometimes, if you click "real
> fast, many times" you can get that back button to work.
> Or you can use the History function to move to the page
> you want.
>
> ____________________________
> David King, david at kclibrary.org
> Information Technology Librarian
> Kansas City Public Library