I’ve seen this weird behavior on several sites recently: I scroll down a page and follow a link to another page. When I click the Back button and return, I am left back at the top of the previous page, not at the link. This is very annoying if I’m clicking on links in a search results page or a list of ’10 Best Foo Bars…’.
See this page as an example. Strangely, the page works as expected in IE6 on WinXP, but not on FF2 on the same machine. On Mac OS X 10.4 it works in FF2, but not in FF3. I checked for any weird preference settings, but I can’t find any that are different.
Any idea what is causing this?
Many sites have a text box (for searching the site, or something) that is set to automatically take focus when the page loads (using javascript or something). In many browsers, the page will jump to that text box when it gets focus.
It really is very annoying 🙁