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When I have answered a question, and press the browser Back button, to return to the question list, I do not get the correct list - all recent questions are missing from the top.
This is completely reproducible - it is not my mistake.
What is the scheduled date for fixing this bug please?
@oklatom: "It isn't designed [for the] Back button". Users have a right to expect it to conform to the expected behaviour (the 20-year-old standards of how web browsers behave)
@scowie: you missed the point - it is NOT returning to the page I came from which IS cached, it is returning to a freshly-generated (but incorrect) page, with wrong content. Always check for a changed page? What a waste of compute power and my bandwidth.
And chetak is right - Yahoo have not responded.
5 Answers
- SharonLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
You can avoid that by opening a new question in a new tab and once you've answered it close the tab.
- scowieLv 67 years ago
What happens when you press the back button depends on your browser settings. It's got nothing to do with Yahoo — there is no bug. Your browser is obviously loading a cached page when you go back, hence you are seeing the old version that you saw before answering the question.
To change this behaviour you need to set your browser to always check for a new version of a page.
- Chetak.Lv 77 years ago
I use the Next button to see what the next question is as I work down the page which seems to work for me.
Yahoo are not very forthcoming with information on such things however
Chetak
- oklatomLv 77 years ago
It isn't designed to get you back to open questions by pressing the back button. Instead use the "Show me another" or "Next" link depending on which version, old or new, of answers you are using.
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- 7 years ago
Who said I asked how much the Yacht in order to buy it? I simply asked how much it was out of curiosity.
