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Why is my Chrome back button skipping pages when using Google Reader's "Next" bookmarklet?

Why is my Chrome back button skipping pages when using Google Reader's "Next" bookmarklet?

The "Next" google reader bookmarklet is a bookmark button you put in your bookmark bar, and when you click on it, it redirects you to the next unread item in you google reader list, but not in google reader. It shows you the original page.(If you go to Google Reader settings > goodies, you'll find it.)

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Guest [Entry]

"This has always been a problem with AJAX-based sites. Search for ""Breaking the BACK button"" in google, and you'll find many articles. The problem is that AJAX queries don't get added to the browser's history, so the ""BACK"" button doesn't even see them.

Many Google products try to ""fix"" this by doing navigation in hidden IFRAMEs, sometimes in combination with anchor-names in the URLs (although the anchor names are really for bookmarks, and not for this, since they don't usually get saved into the browser's history.)"
Guest [Entry]

Google recently put an interstitial page into the Next button which fixes the back button.