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I keep losing the use of my back arrow key because of things like googleaddoubleclicks and other things like it that prevent me from where I'm going. To get around it, I now always click on the down arrow key (instead of the back arrow key) to find the previous webpage/web site and get back to the page I want. Google is my homepage so that's always my first page (in reverse order) in the list with the down arrow key. Okay, that's the scenario.
Every morning before I come to City-Data I read the Drudge Report which as you probably know are links to a lot of different news stories on different issues. So, to get back to the Drudge Report page after reading a story, I do the above actions in my first paragraph. Only today something different happened when I did it. I keep getting The Drudge Report Main page from yesterday. I have to refresh the screen every time to get today's Drudge Report Page.
Today's Drudge Report first story/link is "Limbaugh: We are in the midst of a coup." I click on the link, read that story, click on my down arrow key, select Drudge Report right below it and I get the Drudge Report page that starts out with "Claim: Russian Missiles Shipment Reaches Syria." I look at that page and realize it's yesterday's Drudge Report. I have to refresh the Drudge Report page to get the current one. I've tried it a couple of times and it keeps happening.
Then I decide to try something different. While on the correct Drudge Report page for today, I cut the URL and repaste it in the address window and hit my Enter key. Okay, so far so good. The correct Drudge page comes up. Then I once again click on the link for the Limbaugh story. Get the Limbaugh page, click on the down arrow key. There are only 3 items there:
The Limbaugh Story
The Drudge Report
Google
I select The Drudge Report from the list...and I'm back, not on todays page, but the Drudge page that leads with the Russian/Syria story - yesterday's page.
Am I doing something wrong? Why is this happening now? It has never happened before.
You can always right click the link and open it in a new tab , close the tab when you're done.
This ... (middle click works as well). Plus you get the added bonus of pages loading in the background. I run down a page and middle click every link that looks interesting, and then go to the tabs when I'm done whith that page.
Okay, both suggestions work. Thanks guys. Still I wonder why it happened today only.
The browser caches pages to preserve bandwidth and resources, there is expiration date on it set by the server which can be anything from 0 to infinity. For whatever reason the cached page is not being overwritten by the new page. When you click the back button it pulls up the cached version.
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