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Comment by rosstex | Hacker News Reader

On the desktop, I like having the option to see what a page just looked like, without reloading any data.

If I hit the back button, it's usually because something on the previous page caught my attention and I want to find it again. If I want to reload a page, I'll refresh or click on the site logo (in the case of getting to the root of the site).

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I hate when I go back and things change. I went back for a reason!

But I'm also of the school that wants View Source to view the source that was just downloaded, not re-download a new copy of the source.

I've never understood why View Source would do anything but show me the source of the page I'm looking at - not the source of the page as it is "now," which could be seconds, minutes or hours later. If I'm looking at a page, the browser has or could have a copy of the original stream sent from the server, why not just display that?

What browser(s) are you using that have such behaviour? Is this a new "feature" in the very latest versions? I don't think I've ever seen View Source make another request on Chrome, Firefox, IE, or Opera.

Chrome does.

"Yes, when you "view source", you're really opening a new tab that opens the page again and displays the source rather than renders the page."

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4650#c...

Agreed.

I'm even irked when I go back and the ads change.

I want my history to be like my personal slice of Archive.org.

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