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Dave Farrance
It seems that there's web code that can disable the back-button, on
Firefox at least. I thought that Firefox would now backpage over
redirects, but it seems that there's a way around that. Case in point:
If you go to this tinyurl-preview page and then follow the link to the LA
Times and wait for the article to completely finish loading, then the
back-button becomes disabled.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wa42pu
I wonder how they accomplished this? Does anybody recognise the technique
used? I'd like to pare it down to a test case, so that a Firefox bugfix
request might be written to stop it.
By the way, as a nasty twist, if you then backup with the recent-pages
drop-down to the tinyurl page, then go forward again to the LA Times to
test if it was a browser glitch, then they will check the cookies and
allow the back-button to work the second time around.
Firefox at least. I thought that Firefox would now backpage over
redirects, but it seems that there's a way around that. Case in point:
If you go to this tinyurl-preview page and then follow the link to the LA
Times and wait for the article to completely finish loading, then the
back-button becomes disabled.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wa42pu
I wonder how they accomplished this? Does anybody recognise the technique
used? I'd like to pare it down to a test case, so that a Firefox bugfix
request might be written to stop it.
By the way, as a nasty twist, if you then backup with the recent-pages
drop-down to the tinyurl page, then go forward again to the LA Times to
test if it was a browser glitch, then they will check the cookies and
allow the back-button to work the second time around.