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Using Firefox on Windows.

Hit the back button to try to get back to HN... No luck. Try again... still no luck. Try hitting it twice really fast... No luck. Try hitting it twice really fast again... Frustrated. Right click the back button. Click Hacker News.

I hate webpages that get you stuck on their site like that.



This is because the website uses a badly-written redirect.

Chrome, Opera, and Safari have no problem with these redirects, though: their Back button doesn't become broken when they hit a redirect.

I think if every other modern browser has no problem with redirects, it's as much the fault of Firefox as the website...


"This is because the website uses a badly-written redirect."

Maybe I'm cynical but I don't think it's badly-written, I think it's deliberate. I agree that FF is at fault but I'm suspicious of these websites and believe they likely do it on purpose to improve their analytics for page retention. That probably also improves their SEO ranking since (as I understand it) Google will see the person is on their page for longer and will credit the page as having good content.


Github does this when you sign in, it's really annoying.


Same behavior with Firefox on Ubuntu.

The only other places I get this are nsfw sites and broken-as-hell asian pages.


‘broken-as-hell asian pages’

It’s Nintendo, so that sounds about right.




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