[vox-tech] Firefox Returns To Top, Ebay

[Ken Herron]

--On Monday, August 09, 2004 17:10:15 -0700 Jim Angstadt 
<jimajima9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Open Ebay and select search.  Key in a search term
> such as "seth thomas clock" and click on the search
> button.  This results in about 390 hits, or 8 pages of
> 50 items per page.
>
> On the first page of hits, he makes his way down thru
> the items, clicking on those that interest him.  He
> typically does a quick check of the item, and then
> hits the back button to return to the first page.
>
> With FF he is returned to the *top* of the first page.
>  With IE he is returned to the *current* item of
> interest.

I tried this just now with mozilla (a copy I compiled from source over 
the weekend) and it worked fine. After clicking on an individual auction 
and clicking back, mozilla returned to the auction list page and 
positioned the view to the correct part of the page.

Note that mozilla displays the beginning of the page while the page is 
being reloaded; after this is done, it scrolls the page to the part that 
should be visible. Maybe your friend isn't waiting long enough?

> This slows him down a lot.  Opening the item link in a
> new tab is not any better.

Opening a link in a tab doesn't make the original page scroll, so I 
presume you mean your friend just doesn't like tabbed browsing for some 
reason. I find that surprising; it seems to me that tabbed browsing, with 
links loading in the background, is perfect for what he's doing. What is 
it that he doesn't like?

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