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The Robman
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Post by The Robman »

As nobody else is seeing this symptom, I have to assume that the problem is local. My suggestion would be to clear out your cookies and temporary internet files and see if that fixes it.
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ElizabethD
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Post by ElizabethD »

At home in the past few days using search is a pain.
I type the search word(s) and get a list of posts. As expected.
I read a post and need to get back to the list.
Back button takes me instead to IE: Page not found, DNS error, Refresh does nothing, and I have to start over with the search words.

I don't think this is related to the upgrade here because I just tried search on this site from work and everything works as it always did.
Did I break something at home? Suggestions where to look or what to tweek?
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Post by johnsfine »

ElizabethD wrote: Back button takes me instead to IE: Page not found, DNS error, Refresh does nothing, and I have to start over with the search words.
Another good reason to use Firebird instead of IE.

You can use the tabbed browsing to follow links from a search results page without closing that search results page. That helps in lots of situations where back works badly getting bact to a search results page.

In IE you probably should right click each link and open in new window to avoid closing the results, but that's less convenient than tabbed browsing.
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Post by ElizabethD »

Thanks, John.
The right click routine works, and is a useful solution until I get Firefox. i didn't think of doing it that way. Tabbed browsing sounds great.
I still can't figure out why the back button used to work and now does not.

Not strictly a jp1 question: is Firefox going to know how to make and follow hyperlinks to sheets and cells all over excel workbooks? Isn't Excel tightly married to IE?
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