Don't know how to describe it.....

[BigPapa]

I don't know how to describe this issue.

I can no longer just hit the "Back" button to go back to the thread list from inside a thread. If I right click and hold the "Back" button, I see this:

What's up with that? Is it loading new ads causing the thread to reload every time?

 

[DavidC]

Mine has been working fine all day until now 6:20pm Az. time. Now the back button doesn't work.

Dave

 

[TDRAdmin4]

Needed details: Operating system, browser, and browser version. I cannot duplicate this on my system with either Chrome or Firefox.

 

[BigPapa]

I'm running Windows 10 and Firefox. I can get you version numbers when I get home.

 

[DavidC]

Windows 7 professional, Firefox 54.0.1 ( 32 bit). Just tried the back button after looking at a post and all worked well this morning, weird.

Dave

 

[BigPapa]

Just tried the back button after looking at a post and all worked well this morning, weird.

Dave

Yes, it does it sometimes and others it works fine. I THINK it matters how long you're in the thread, if you've been in it before, and if you're posting in it.

 

[mwilson]

I'll try it as I get time to see if I can replicate it along with you guys.

I usually don't use the "Back" button anyways, instead I use "Today's Post" to go back to the threads.

A lot of my OEM programs don't deal well with the "Back" button in general so I have re-trained myself to use alternative methods...

 

[BigPapa]

Here's all I got:

 

[TDRAdmin4]

Okay, I'm going to spend some time looking at it this evening with a Firefox browser debugger, to see what's going on behind the scenes.

 

[TDRAdmin4]

The only way I've been able to reproduce it so far is by click the multi-quote button. It seems that Firefox is doing something it's not supposed to be doing, when you interact with the page in any way which fires off a background connection to the server, Firefox records each of those connections as a "back" page. A click like that can actually result in several background connections, and it fills up the back list.

From looking over their bug reports, this has been going on and off since at least mid-2016, on a variety of sites (Fox News, Stackexchange, Breitbart and many others. Firefox support keeps asking them for a list of plugins, blaming it on that, but users with unrelated plugs are having the same problem. I cannot get it to happen with Chrome, IE, Edge or Opera browsers. Apparently it doesn't happen in the Linux version of Firefox either, only Windows.

Do you guys/gals know which plugins you have installed on your browser? There's got to be a common denominator here.

 

[BigPapa]

Do you guys/gals know which plugins you have installed on your browser?

Mine's plugged in the wall.....:-laf


Tell this old man where I go to access this list and I'll see what I can find. I don't recall using the multi-quote button.

 

[BigPapa]

Just did it to me again.

I'm on my work computer now.

I obviously used the "Reply With Quote" button.

 

[DavidC]

Mine has not acted up since looking at this post the first time and nothing I know of has changed.

Dave

 

[TDRAdmin4]

Apparently, Google has had wide spread problems with their ads the past 3 days or so, but I've heard they started rolling out a fix today. I don't know if its related or not, but I'm going to wait a couple of days --- if it doesn't resolve it I'll do some further digging.

 

[BigPapa]

Just so you know, I haven't had an issue since my last post here.

 

[BigPapa]

Wow, it's going crazy tonight. It's doing it now when I go into a thread even if I don't do anything but "page down" to read the posts. It did one thread so bad I couldn't even get to the bottom of the list and had to close it and reopen it to post this.


This is what it looks like right now:

 

[Larry Willard]

I was having the same problem a month or so ago, maybe 5 or 6 different days but went away on its own and hasn't returned......yet.
Larry

 

[TDRAdmin4]

I haven't forgotten you guys. I've spent some time on an admin site, and it's definitely related to some advertisers doing a sneaky trick. They make their ads unclickable, and put a phone number on it hoping you'll call. Sites with Adsense like us end up displaying the ads for free since they can't be clicked, and it causes the problem with Firefox. I have a tool now to indentify these ads, and have been blocking them as I find them (its a game of whack a mole!).

 

[DavidC]

Good luck. Everyone wants something for free, even if they are not entitled to it.

Dave

 

[brods]

I haven't forgotten you guys. I've spent some time on an admin site, and it's definitely related to some advertisers doing a sneaky trick. They make their ads unclickable, and put a phone number on it hoping you'll call. Sites with Adsense like us end up displaying the ads for free since they can't be clicked, and it causes the problem with Firefox. I have a tool now to indentify these ads, and have been blocking them as I find them (its a game of whack a mole!).

Interesting. So where do these ads come from that you can't ban or otherwise punish the company doing them? Don't you get to control what ads are displayed on the website??? Even logged in there are 5 trackers being blocked 3 of which are related to advertising.