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I am in Squirrelmail, reading my web-spam. I induce RSI by clicking on 20 boxes of penis enhancements and urgent business propositions ready for deletion (yes, I could use Squirrelmail's "Select All" feature but such reasonableness is not what hate is made of). But hark! *This* email might not be spam, let's have a look. <click> Oh, it *was* spam. Let's go back to the mail index. Where, of course, my browser has decided that, it won't go *back* to the page, retaining ticked checkboxes and scrollbar settings. No, it will refresh the page. Because obviously that's what I wanted. Firefox at least performs its hateful idiocy speedily. IE tells me this was POSTed information - am I sure I want to send the information again? but doesn't offer an option "No you moron, just take me to the fucking page already". Safari gives not one but 2 popup messages, and then takes me back to the page at a leisurely pace, having selected some of the ticked check-boxes at random. Think different. This kind of annoyance happens with a lot of corporate POST-happy sites: thetrainline (hate hate hate) and so on. Why can't browsers go back sanely? Some of them can: Opera handles these sensibly (if the page is still cached, just show the cached HTML including any form fillage and scrollbar location info) as it was. After all, if you *really* wanted to refresh, there's a perfectly good refresh button, right? (In case you're wondering, Opera is hateful in other ways, such as not being free, having a brilliant concept for e-mail which is let down by a buggy implemetation which sometimes crashes randomly, and doesn't handle IMAP, but at least it can handle something as simple as going back.) -- osfameromThere's stuff above here
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