Firefox?

[Colin Brett]

Any idea why when I click on the "back" button Firefox returns to the previous page and then reloads it again?

It is such a pain!!

 

Colin

[RobStubbs]

Mine doesn't do that - is it something in your settings ?

 

Rob.

[yorkio]

Any idea why when I click on the "back" button Firefox returns to the previous page and then reloads it again?

It is such a pain!!

 

I'm not quite sure I understand - is it the fact that the page is loading again that's the problem? That is, it's slow to reload, instead of all the graphics being there already? (Just checking that you're not puzzled about the idea of the back button taking you back a page! )

 

Have you got it set to use a sensible amount of Offline Storage? (See Prefs > Advanced > Network) If that's set very low, then your computer will be forced to load pages from scratch every time every time instead of reusing data from the cache. I think the default is 50MB, which seems to work OK. If for some reason, yours has become set to a couple of megs or something, that'll probably be slowing you down.

[Colin Brett]

I'm not quite sure I understand - is it the fact that the page is loading again that's the problem? That is, it's slow to reload, instead of all the graphics being there already? (Just checking that you're not puzzled about the idea of the back button taking you back a page! )

 

Have you got it set to use a sensible amount of Offline Storage? (See Prefs > Advanced > Network) If that's set very low, then your computer will be forced to load pages from scratch every time every time instead of reusing data from the cache. I think the default is 50MB, which seems to work OK. If for some reason, yours has become set to a couple of megs or something, that'll probably be slowing you down.

 

Example is:

Open "Technical Help" and select my "Firefox" question, the page opens successfully.

Click on the back button, the page {Technical Help] loads, then disappears, then reloads again.

 

Cache is set to 100mb

I don't have this problem with IE.

 

My other problem with Firefox that doesn't happen with IE is opening images from an image link. Firefox says the image contains errors, but the same link is fine within IE???

 

Version is 3.0.1 I've had this problem for sometime my patience is now almost exhausted.

 

Can I save all my Firefox passwords etc somewhere other than within Firefox? If so I could try a complete new install of Firefox.

 

Colin

[Guest Jan V]

Colin, I backed out version 3 of Firefox after a sundry of odd problems but Newt runs it quite successfully..

[Colin Brett]

Colin, I backed out version 3 of Firefox after a sundry of odd problems but Newt runs it quite successfully..

 

Jan,

Thanks but the problem was before version 3, I had hoped 3 might cure it!!

 

Wrong!!

 

Still it's no worse

 

Colin

[Chris Goddard]

Colin, TRY the forums! I have had a couple of problems (MOSTLY of my own making!) And the lads and lasses on there are VERY helpful! NEARLY as helpful as here!!

[Colin Brett]

Any idea why when I click on the "back" button Firefox returns to the previous page and then reloads it again?

It is such a pain!!

 

Colin

 

Now sorted!!! :clap2:

 

It turns out it was Skype causing the problem, just loaded the latest version and all seems to be OK.

 

Also Skype was stopping images opening and that is solved as well.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions

 

Colin