Navigating the forums

[kmurch]

To the moderators (or anyone else that could answer this): Once I click on a posting to see it, I don't see an obvious way to navigate back to the spot in the forum where I was. Its probably staring me in the face, but I just don't see it. Help?

 

[C.Ann]

To the moderators (or anyone else that could answer this): Once I click on a posting to see it, I don't see an obvious way to navigate back to the spot in the forum where I was. Its probably staring me in the face, but I just don't see it. Help?

Do you mean if you opened this post and you want to go back to the page where you first started? If so, just use your back button on your computer - mine is in the upper left corner.. (Two arrows..) Or - go to the top of the page and click on "Community Board"..

Hope that helps..

 

[Imzadi]

I learned to do this technique below, when I had AOL and dial up and it would take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to click on a page, wait for it to l-o-a-d and then click back and wait for the original page to l-o-a-d and realised how crazy and time consuming that was. I was spending the majority of my time waiting for pages to l-o-a-d than I was spending time actually reading them.

Whenever I see a link on any webpage, I automatically now Right mouse click on it, then click on "Open in NEW Window." This way, I have the original window still open and the link opens in new page. Once I'm done with the new page, I just close it, and I'm back to the original page and the same spot I was at. (NO waiting for that page to reload and to scroll down to where I need to be.)

If I'm on dial-up or have a slow connection loading pages, I can Right mouse click multiple pages to load and open. This way, I can be reading one page while the others are loading. Once I'm done with that page, a new page is already loaded and ready to be read.

I always do this when I'm doing Google searches and need to look at many pages.


I think on FireFox, new links automatically open in new windows. I wish I.E. had that capability without right mouse clicking. But, it's become an ingrained habit now.

 

[kmurch]

I've found that after replying to a message (after you are automatically taken to the specific posting) hitting the back button pops up the message that says (paraphrasing) "you will be taken to your posting...". Then it goes right back to the posting, rather than the forum it self. Maybe it just my machine.

 

[kmurch]

..."Open in NEW Window." ...

Thats a good suggestion, and I do that often as well. It does tend to clutter the desktop though.

Thanks

 

[bumbershoot]

I open in a new window/tab.

Even if you click Back you're not necessarily going to get back to exactly where you were, b/c the forums are dynamic. So if your browser refreshes the original window while going Back, you'll see different stuff than you saw before.

So open things in a new window/tab, to make sure you see all the threads you wanted to see.

 

[kmurch]

...click on "Community Board"...

Yes, that works. But it takes you to the first page in the forum, rather than the page you were on. So you have to navigate back to the page to continue looking down the list of postings.

But thanks for the suggestions

 

[laurie31]

I also do the "right click- open in new tab" thing.

I scroll down page one, right clicking and opening all the threads I want to read. Then I read them, closing each as I'm done. Then I go to page two, using the same method, and sometimes I make it to page three. By this time, page one is all different, so I go back there one more time before I leave.

Wow, that sounds like I spend way too much time here...

 

[GoofyforDisney3]

I learned to do this technique below, when I had AOL and dial up and it would take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to click on a page, wait for it to l-o-a-d and then click back and wait for the original page to l-o-a-d and realised how crazy and time consuming that was. I was spending the majority of my time waiting for pages to l-o-a-d than I was spending time actually reading them.

Whenever I see a link on any webpage, I automatically now Right mouse click on it, then click on "Open in NEW Window." This way, I have the original window still open and the link opens in new page. Once I'm done with the new page, I just close it, and I'm back to the original page and the same spot I was at. (NO waiting for that page to reload and to scroll down to where I need to be.)

If I'm on dial-up or have a slow connection loading pages, I can Right mouse click multiple pages to load and open. This way, I can be reading one page while the others are loading. Once I'm done with that page, a new page is already loaded and ready to be read.

I always do this when I'm doing Google searches and need to look at many pages.


I think on FireFox, new links automatically open in new windows. I wish I.E. had that capability without right mouse clicking. But, it's become an ingrained habit now.

I do the right click think too. Makes it much easier to get back to the thread list than using the back button.