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Mild nit: your website hijacked the back button, I had to spam click back like 30 times to get back to this hacker news comment thread

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>I had to spam click back like 30 times to get back to this hacker news comment thread

Click-and-holding or right-clicking the back button will give you a list of last N URLs in your tab history. This page only generates one auto-redirect, so the HN URL will show up.

Thank you for this. Many years of browser usage and I never knew this.

Such is the years long removal of affordance from the UI. Netscape 4 had a small downwards arrow to indicate a submenu for the backbutton.

On Firefox it apparently disappeared in 2011

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/%5BArticle%...

Just tried this in Arc and Firefox...I never knew.

Wow .. you've just removed a massive source of frustration - thank you.

Just wanted to apologise to everyone for this, this kind of stuff drives me nuts and I'm not sure how I never noticed - it seems to be a result of how we use the iframe to render the chat example. Investigating!

Update: this should be fixed now

Thanks for the quick response!

Tip for next time this happens: hold down the back button for a menu of your history. It can help get where you want faster. Although not sure it helps too much if you literally had to click 30 times

That or right click.

Founder here - do you mean the chat example? Or just the homepage itself?

homepage itself, firefox on ubuntu

Are the history entries all just the same URL? Thanks for reporting

Yes (encountered same issue on ff macos after clicking on example tabs)

same for me safari on macos15

I couldn't replicate this in Firefox 131 under W11.

On Firefox 131.0 I clicked through the tabs with the demo code, then pressed my mouse's "back" button and it didn't work. So I manually clicked the back button and it directed me back to this page.

Then I opened it again and clicked the back button and it didn't work again.

I’m also experiencing issues with the website. I when to the docs page and accidentally pressed back in my browser, after which the forward button wouldn’t work to undo the back operation.

Seems like the website breaks basic browser navigation.

Reproduced with Firefox 131.0 on Windows 11. Happens if I click to jazz.tools. After pressing back once, I am still on jazz.tools, but have a forward arrow. It does seem related to the "chat" because the "result" window changes when I click between those back/forward arrow controls of the browser.

https://imgur.com/a/nuUluX3

I wonder if they tested this at all. What a poor showing.

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