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[*] posted on 16-5-2007 at 19:01
What is with the search function?


Seriously, whenever I do a search, click on a result to see what's there, then hit the back button I always get a "webpage expired" thing. I always have to repeat the search string to get back to the results. It's super annoying. Is this normal or do I have bad settings in this here IE7 I'm using?

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[*] posted on 16-5-2007 at 19:26


Try leaving the search results page open and right click on each desired link to get the options menu , left click
"open in new window" .

But if you left click directly on a search hit .....
yeah the search results are gone .

I hate that myself , because probably most links , and especially search result links should by default open in a new window when clicked . But it's surprising how many of them aren't that way .

[Edited on 16-5-2007 by Rosco Bodine]
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[*] posted on 16-5-2007 at 19:28


Or hold shift, or click the middle button (in Firefox). For that matter, Firefox saves "POSTDATA" like a good browser, and you won't have to retype your stuff.



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[*] posted on 16-5-2007 at 19:37


Maybe we can get that bug fixed as part of
a CSS and W3C bundle implementation ,
in the next forum upgrade :D
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[*] posted on 16-5-2007 at 20:51


Good suggestions. Holding Ctrl down in IE7 launches in a new tab. Shift is a new window.
Tim, I used to use Mozilla exclusively, but I switched to IE7 when it came out because I like it better. Anyway, I just tried doing a search on the board in Mozilla and found that it will just give a warning about resending postdata when you hit the back button; hitting OK resends your search string and sends you back to the previous page. I don't know why IE7 doesn't do this! Surely there is a setting that could be changed in the browser? I looked but didn't see anything obvious.

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