Locally hosted homepage not added to history, so you can't go "back" to it.
After the latest update to 41.0.1 my homepage which is a list of links on a local machine (http://192.168.1.1) isn't getting added to the history, so once I click a link on that page I can't go "back" to home.
It seems this is also a problem with a file:// homepage. Something about "local" pages is causing them to be omitted from the history.
Any thoughts or fixes?
Edit to add: Additional checking shows that it does actually appear in the history viewer, but it is ignored as a "back" option, button is greyed out.
Modified by slayster
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Look on your toolbar for a "house" icon. Press it.
FredMcD said
Look on your toolbar for a "house" icon. Press it.
That's a temporary workaround which I'm well aware of and I can't use the back button on my mouse to do that.
You can middle-click a link to open the link in a new tab. Then you can close the tab instead of using the Back button or menu item to go back.
I've used a home page on file:///c:/ for as long as I can remember, and Firefox lets me go back to it.
Does your home page have ordinary HTML links, or is there a script int he page that might be using the location.replace() method? That will replace the current page in history with the next one loaded, preventing the use of the back button to refer to the earlier page.
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Location/replace
Or... if you mean your home page loaded in place of the the tiles page on a new tab, the coding of the new tab does not allow going back to the new tab page, whether the original or one you choose.
A user on another forum said he worked around this by adding a refresh meta tag into the local page:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0" />
I haven't tried it myself.
cor-el said
You can middle-click a link to open the link in a new tab. Then you can close the tab instead of using the Back button or menu item to go back.
Another workaround which I'm already aware of. Not really the kind of answers I was expecting. That's not really going to help with years worth of habit. :) I guess I was posting this more as a bug report.
jscher2000 said
I've used a home page on file:///c:/ for as long as I can remember, and Firefox lets me go back to it.
I been using the same links homepage for years as well. It's only been the last couple of days since the last update that the back button has been a problem.
jscher2000 said
Does your home page have ordinary HTML links, or is there a script int he page that might be using the location.replace() method? That will replace the current page in history with the next one loaded, preventing the use of the back button to refer to the earlier page.
All standard plain HTML links.
jscher2000 said
Or... if you mean your home page loaded in place of the the tiles page on a new tab, the coding of the new tab does not allow going back to the new tab page, whether the original or one you choose.
Using "New Tab Homepage"
jscher2000 said
A user on another forum said he worked around this by adding a refresh meta tag into the local page:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0" />
I guess that might help, but that shouldn't really be necessary.
Hi slayster, if the problem is only when your home page is automatically loaded into the new tab page, then unfortunately, that is how the page currently is coded: any link you follow in the new tab page replaces the new tab page in history (or maybe the new tab page simply never gets added to history?).
If you want to suggest a change or report it as a bug, you can use one of these:
And in the short run, you could try the refresh workaround and see whether that is sufficient for now.
Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer