I thought it was just my computer being funny, but it does the same thing at work.... To navigate around the site in the forums, you have to press back twice.... It never did that with the old format

Internet Explorer or?

Mozilla and IE, IE at school too

I searched on vb's support site and came up with nothing. I couldn't even hazard a guess why that's happening. I'll keep looking but I'll probably find out it's one of those things nothing can be done about.

I ran into that problem sometimes. It's been a while though.

I'd click it, and it'd show that it was "working" , then I'd get impatient and click it again, and It'd back up, but only one page. :E

Forum looks ALOT better with out the side bar Matt. Glad you ditched those ugly green squares too! Keep up the good work! ;)

alrighty, it didnt do this before.... It's just irritating because I press back and nothing happens, I have to click back again, like it starts to load something than it just says done at the bottom, I click again, than it finally goes back.... But if I click back twice too fast it goes back two pages ?? It's never done that before and it's not my computer because it does the EXACT same thing at school....

It has to be something on your end, I am using FireFox and don't have that problem.

Occasionally I have a similar problem on Ford Truck World. Some times the ad's on the page wont load when the rest of hte page loads. So when I want to go back, something happens, and I would hit it once, and it would just go back for the ads on the page, and then hit back again, to go to the previous page. Make sense? Could be something like that.

I have now started to have this happen. I have noticed that it only happens when i hit the "view first unread post" button.

I have now started to have this happen. I have noticed that it only happens when i hit the "view first unread post" button.

That one I can explain. When you click on a post's title from the index, lets say this current thread, the link you followed is this:

.../forum/showthread.php?t=139350

That points directly to thread #139350. Now when you click on the "view first...." link, it sends you to what they call an "anchor", adds a little bit to the current link. Since you made the last post while I typed this, this is what is was for me.

.../forum/showthread.php?t=139350#post1040769

That points to this thread and post #1040769. Each post/thread is numbered and linked. So when you click back, it goes from the "anchor" link back to the first link, both are on the same page, looks like you haven't gone back. You would have to click twice to leave this thread.

In other cases, like if you click the arrow that takes you to the last post in a thread, the link for that looks like this.

.../forum/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=139350 and is converted to this anchor link on the fly to...

.../forum/showthread.php?p=1040769#post1040769

Even though it is also an "anchor", since you clicked that link from the index and not inside the post, you would only have to click back once.

There are a couple of tech articles that use these links to point to certain things on that same page. Your browser treats them as another step in your browsing history. If you click on one inside the document, go back to the top and click another one, you'd have to click back three times to leave that page.

That's a basic element of html, outside of our control. Hope that explains it. Maybe they made more use of this in vb3 and that is why. Look at the links when it happens, look for #...