IE 9 invisible pages

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On some sites, I look at something and then use the Back Arrow to go back to the previous page and nothing happens…I can do this several times before I get back to the previous page…

When I right click on the back arrow I see the following pages with the page I want to go back to at the bottom of the list..

What causes this to happen?
I think it has something to do with tweeting but not sure.

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Quite simply, IE 9 back button is flawed. It’s a known problem. It fails and / or works very unpredictably. It’s the biggest annoyance with IE 9, for me, other than the memory leak on my 64 bit system.

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I never heard of that before.

So what are all the ‘Share This’ things on there ??

It seems to happen more on certain sites I visit then other sites.

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I believe some sites bombard you with stuff, including the inability to back away from the site. They want you to read their stuff! Perhaps I’m wrong but I think not. I have seen something similar to this on my Yahoo home page (just 1 of 3 home pages) The others all work correctly, but it seems that every link I click on from the Yahoo home page, it takes 3 clicks before the back button on my mouse works. Who knows, perhaps it is IE 9 or something else.

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I understand that Ted but what’s the purpose of them doing that when you back button back no pages load until you get back to the original page you started from ??

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I understand that Ted but what’s the purpose of them doing that when you back button back no pages load until you get back to the original page you started from ??

At some sites, when you click on a link you are re-directed to another address that does not display a page but does some work and then forwards your request to the next address. some browsers such as Chrome do not record the intermediate web address as a visited site but IE does. Thus in IE when you click the back button you are taken to the intermediate site which just forwards you back to where you were. When this happens you must click the back button quickly before the intermediate site does the redirection.

Joe

--Joe

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I don’t think it’s the sites. Same sites with Chrome do not exhibit this behavior. It’s IE’s fault.

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It seems this problem was caused by some change a couple of days ago at ShareThis which was corrected by them today: Back button in IE not working

Bruce

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Well guys, it’s starting to make sense…

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does anyone still use IE, for anything? OMG.

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Why does anyone still use IE, for anything? OMG.

Why not? IE9 works as well as anything else; better in many cases.

Bruce

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Why not? IE9 works as well as anything else; better in many cases.

Bruce

it certainly does, especially catching colds, er, viruses. :^)

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it certainly does, especially catching colds, er, viruses. :^)

IE9 kills 99% of germs.🙂

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does anyone still use IE, for anything? OMG.

I stopped running IE9 because of printing problems. Left me no choice but to revert back to IE8. I won’t use 9 again until it’s fixed and maybe not even then, I’ve gotten used to Google Chrome.

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Bruce, look at mpioso’s posts in the other forums….
You’ll understand better that they don’t warrant a reply…

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Bruce, look at mpioso’s posts in the other forums….
You’ll understand better that they don’t warrant a reply…

Ah yes, thanks. I only checked previous posts in this forum.

Bruce

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I also use IE 9 at least 99% of the time without any problems. There are almost NO sites that do not load properly. I have NEVER caught a “COLD” while using IE 9, although catching viruses and malware are much more dependent on an individuals surfing habits, clicking habits, and security systems rather than their browser choice. All modern browsers are very secure compared to browsers of old.

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Yes Ted, most, or should I say a lot, of people just click on things and can’t figure out why they get infected..

These are the same people that will back their car into a tree and then blame the tree for being where it is.

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Yes Ted, most, or should I say a lot, of people just click on things and can’t figure out why they get infected..

These are the same people that will back their car into a tree and then blame the tree for being where it is.

Oh, I’ve had a personal computer at home for 20 years and have never had a piece of malware or a virus make it to my machine even once. And during those years, I have used a wide variety of security tools, currently using mostly standalone tools. But I use FF almost exclusively, if I need IE for anything which has happened once or twice, I turn a FF tab into an IE tab which takes care of the problem, it is good enough to fool even Windows Update. I have noticed that IE 9 cannot stop all pop up blockers regardless what choices you make, that doesn’t happen with FF or Chrome. Haven’t used Opera in many years though I did favor it at one time. I like FF for the multitude of customizable add ons. Safety on the net is achievable with any browser, you are correct in that. So personal preference is personal freedom to choose I guess. Which fits well in a free society. :^)

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Way to go gene….

Computing is the sport of the cautious…

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In addition to all the good replies to this thread, there is yet another reason some web pages or portions of pages show up as blanks when accessed using ANY browser’s Back Arrow:

Some web pages contain “post” data, which are not part of the main page codes. These “post” data must be re-entered or restored in order for the entire page contents to be seen. Some of these pages are login or secure transaction pages, while some are unsecured pages. In any event, they contain “live” data which are not automatically restored when you use the Back Arrow to return to these pages. Yahoo Mail is one of many examples, and the Lounge logins behave much the same way.

I don’t think any useful purpose is being served by the sub-thread on which browser is more secure, or shows more web pages better than the others. Let’s just agree that we have our preferences, and some of us just use whichever browser seems to give the best user experience on a per-site basis. I actually fall into that category, especially with Windows 8 Developer Preview and IE 10.

-- rc primak

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I very rarely use the print function in IE.
I use Bull Zip PDF printer (Free-ware) and just use CNTRL/ P and print the page to a PDF and then I use that to print out what I want.

Works for me…

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I also never use the print function in any browser. I find Ctrl + P so easy, or as Bany states the print function of my PDF reader of choice for those type files I open in my browser. Heck, I’ve actually forgotten about the browser print function and have actually removed it from the command bar.

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The problem is a redirect page between the current page and the last page you saw. The back button takes you back to the redirect page, whose purpose is to send you to the current page, which it does–again and again. In most cases, the redirect page is googleads.g.doubleclick.net
Here is the cure:
Tools>Internet options>security>restricted sites>sites
In the top box, type: googleads.g.doubleclick.net
Click “add”
Click “close”
Click “OK”
Someone else came up with this fix, but I can’t give them credit because I can’t find it again.

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Thanks oneid, I already have that in my restricted site..

Whatever was causing it seems to have stopped on it’s on…There may have been a fix in one of the Windows updates.

But, thanks for your input..

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I was getting the Google one, and a search found this:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/browser/p3p/

The button bottom left fixed it fine.

I was also getting one other and found this information that heped me fix that one:
http://www.speedguide.net/faq_in_q.php?qid=377

Found that the offending item was assets.pinterest.com/pidget.html, so blocked it in ‘restricted sites’ using the instructions.

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