Firefox Back Arrow Issue

[29Tudor]

I'm having an intermittent problem with my Firefox browser. There are times when my back arrow is not an option. It doesn't highlight nor does it work. Any ideas?

[ithanium]

maybe you are in a new tab or window :|

[stderr]

Funny you should mention this. I've noticed a similar problem with Firefox under Fedora. Is it the case that if you right-click on the back button, you do actually get the back list?

[29Tudor]

This is really bothering me.I post on a few woodworking and old car forums, whenever I open a picture, or a link, it opens in the same tab but the back and forward arrows are not operable (dimmed out.) Right click does nothing.
I have to close the tab, which closes the browser, and start over.

Please help, I'm ALMOST ready to go back to Windows!

[ikisham]

You can try right-clicking the link and choosing to open in a new tab or window. Also check the Tabs part under Edit>Preferences.

[redseventyseven]

Can you give us an example of a site where this happens?
It would help if we could try it ourselves and see if we can reproduce the problem.

[kansasnoob]

This is really bothering me.I post on a few woodworking and old car forums, whenever I open a picture, or a link, it opens in the same tab but the back and forward arrows are not operable (dimmed out.) Right click does nothing.
I have to close the tab, which closes the browser, and start over.

Please help, I'm ALMOST ready to go back to Windows!

I've not experienced your exact problem but I wonder if the official Mozilla build of Firefox would work any better?

The easiest way to accomplish this is with Ubuntuzilla:

http://ubuntuzilla.wiki.sourceforge.net/#tochome6

It really is as simple as downloading Ubuntuzilla to the desktop then double clicking the .deb to install to the repos, and then running in terminal:


ubuntuzilla.py -a install -p firefox

NOTE: Firefox must be closed while doing the installation!

[29Tudor]

This has happened on 4 different forums, or most anything that has a link. Once I open the pic, or click on the link, there's no going back.

[MickS]

Try middle clicking on the link, that should force it to open a new tab.

Mick

[nanotube]

try starting with a fresh firefox profile (back up your bookmarks and stuff first, of course).

if that fails, you could also try the official Mozilla build of firefox using ubuntuzilla as kansasnoob suggests.

[29Tudor]

Problem solved...my fault, too accustomed to Windows.
Thanks to all that responded

[nanotube]

Problem solved...my fault, too accustomed to Windows.
Thanks to all that responded

Good news. :)
Please share what your solution was so that others who run into the same thing know what to do.

[JohnWesleyMethodist]

Please help, I'm ALMOST ready to go back to Windows!

I fail to see how that would help. I am thinking back to all the weird problems I saw over the years with IE...