Preventing the 'Back' button from being disabled?

[TroyMcClure]

Certain sites seem to 'disable' the Back button, ie hitting 'Back' just stays on the same page.

This is tremendously annoying if I'm, say, doing a Google search--checking a site, find it's not the right one, hit back, try the next one, and so on--then sure enough one of the sites 'locks' me--the Back button just loops back to itself.

Sometimes even the dropdown on the 'back' button won't show my original starting point if it's is past the limit--so how can I prevent this annoyance and have the back button just work like it should? Is this allowed because my security settings are 'medium' instead of 'high'?
Thanks for any help on this,
T

 

[Rhys666]

I believe this is a bit of Javascript that plays with IE history on entering the page, so going back actually just sends you back to where you are.

Without checking if the higher security setting will change this I can only think that disabling javascript is a choice, or changing your options in google to always open links in a new window thereby negating this.

Rhys
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[TroyMcClure]

Rhys,
Thanks, I'll test disabling javascript, but I think I need that in other areas, so it looks like the google option preference should be the trick,]
T

 

[ftechguy]

Many pages you reach from a search engine also redirect you immediately to another page. So when you hit the back button after being redirected, you go to the redirecting page, you are immediately sent "back" again. So instead, click the drop down arrow by the back button and click for two pages back. That will usually get you back to your search results (or whatever page you were at before hitting the redirecting page).