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Pyser
08-22-2005, 08:34 PM
why does this message board never remember where i have scrolled to on the previous page? every time i read a thread, then click back, it takes me to the top.

is there a setting im missing, or does it do this pain in the ass thing for everyone?
Tasan
08-22-2005, 08:37 PM
I get the same thing with Firefox. Kinda annoying.
Cuckoo
08-22-2005, 08:58 PM
Me too - one of the only things I don't like about FF.
Taco
08-22-2005, 09:10 PM
That's what tabs are for
kcchief19
08-22-2005, 09:35 PM
Used to work fine for me, but since the whole server switching issue I contantly get logged out and lose the ability to utilize that features and other that are dependent upon you always being logged under your account name.
Cuckoo
08-22-2005, 10:26 PM
Used to work fine for me, but since the whole server switching issue I contantly get logged out and lose the ability to utilize that features and other that are dependent upon you always being logged under your account name.

I never get logged off. Everything's fine for me, except for remembering the scrolling on the page. And it's been that way since the first day I tried FF.
Rizon
08-22-2005, 11:05 PM
I get the same problem too. Just been too lazy to post it after all these months.
Alf
08-23-2005, 04:44 AM
No pb with FireFox at work. I just can't login from home. The password "cell" emptys itself as soon as I click on "login" button.
Yossarian
08-23-2005, 05:22 AM
Kinda unrelated but my long term real bugbear with firefox is the download manager thing.

When it gets very large it can take up to ten seconds to start a download and during that time , the whole browser is unresponsive. This happens even when downloading a tiny file.

Its really really annoying. I know the solution is to just empty the history on the download manager but really, I (as a user) shouldn't have to babysit the app in that fashion.
Taco
08-23-2005, 05:32 AM
Tools -> Options -> Download Manager History -> Remove files upon successful download

Done, no more babysitting.
Yossarian
08-23-2005, 06:54 AM
I like having the history there though... but that is better than manually babysitting.
ZXTT
08-23-2005, 12:35 PM
I think Firefox reads the page again when you navigate back. I believe, from things I've read, that this is the correct behavior according to standards, ie. the website software can assume that the browser will read the page again. Of course, it sucks from a user's point of view and I have this problem on pretty much all web forums.

Currently, Opera caches pages and does not reread them, thus giving very fast back/forward behavior. IE seems to work pretty quickly and return back to the correct place too. I understand the next major release of Firefox will have a similar feature. I believe it is available in the "Deer Park" alphas you can download.
Pyser
08-23-2005, 01:49 PM
thats good to know ZXTT.

i feel better knowing everyone has the problem, and its not something i could have fixed months ago.

its not all that annoying, really. but if i was given a choice, its something i would change.
Mac Howard
08-23-2005, 07:15 PM
It's particularly annoying when you have this very slow rendering of pages with broadband - which is occurring again today but not yesterday. It can slow to as much as 3 seconds an item on the thread list page, so rendering the page from scratch each time you return from reading a thread becomes a real pain.
Taco
08-23-2005, 07:24 PM
When you click on a thread, open it up in a new tab. Then you don't have to use the back button and wait until the page renders again.