Question About Firefox and Vanilla

Silentbobs

I am a regular participant of a vanilla forum and I use firefox as my browser. One thing that I have noticed is when I scroll down the discussion page and then click on a thread, when I am done reading the thread I click back and it brings me to the top of the discussion page, thus lossing my spot. Is there a simple solution to this problem?? I have noticed that it does not do this with IE7 and have been told that safari is unaffected as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Derek

Minisweeper

I think that's due to the data expiry headers on the page or something...when you click back firefox actually re-loads all the page information because the forum tells it that the data that was previously there is probably out of date. I think IE and Safari dont do this properly which is why they go back to the place you left at. Technically firefox is displaying the correct behaviour...

Silentbobs

But is there any way of stoping this because it becomes a major pain when you have to go find your spot again after reading a thread

Max_B

Open your thread in a new tab (ctrl/command click), keeping your discussion page untouched.
AFAIK, the back button does not imply a page reload, so the user agent can choose to reload or not. In Safari, if you go back the page is not reloaded, unless you ask for.

WallPhone

It is a pain, and Vanilla isin't the only one affected: http://drupal.org/node/94135 http://www.issociate.de/board/post/280717/Sessions,_Expire-headers_and_Firefox's_back_button.html /me puts on his thinking cap.