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Doing an advanced search and using the back button

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Rollergirl11 · 02/03/2025 09:10

When accessing threads that have been listed as the result of an Advanced search, if you use the back button on the browser to go back to the other threads that were listed, it takes you back to the blank advanced search screen rather than the search results. This means you have to keep entering your search criteria every time after selecting one thread to read. It never used to do this. It would retain your search results and you could navigate between threads within your search. This function is now useless as you can only click on one thread before having to enter your search criteria all over again.

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Rollergirl11 · 02/03/2025 09:21

Yep agree. Why can’t it just go back to how it was? What’s the point of the function if you can only click on one result per search?

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Yellowink · 02/03/2025 09:17

Boopear · 02/03/2025 09:17

But it did use to work properly. Now it doesn't. And i don't want to open up millions of tabs on a search. Especially on the phone. So a fix would be good.

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Boopear · 02/03/2025 09:17

But it did use to work properly. Now it doesn't. And i don't want to open up millions of tabs on a search. Especially on the phone. So a fix would be good.

babblingbumblingbandofbaboons · 02/03/2025 09:14

most internet browsers won’t hold what you’ve searched when you click the back button. But there’s an easy fix:

On a laptop, right click whichever link you want to access and choose “open in new tab”.

On a tablet/phone tap and hold the link and do the same.

in both of these options, a new tab will open on the browser, maintaining your search results in the original tab and you can switch between.

Yellowink · 02/03/2025 09:11

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