[sartor]

A good example of this is at cars.com - Search for a used car, and when you get the list, click on one of the cars. Then hit the back button after it's loaded.. You'll stay on the same page!
WTF! I googled this, and I read that some html programmers purposely program the website to do this, and so this probably isn't a Safari specific problem. What gives????

[IronPen]

That is frustrating, but, you're correct, it is not specific to Safari.

[Laminar]

I've noticed the same thing when viewing eBay items. I have to double click the back button to get back to a page of search results. Because of this, I typically open up items in a new tab and just close the tab when I'm done.

[larkost]

The issue you are running into is that some sites have intermediate link pages between other pages (typically to guard against submitting forms twice). The intermediate page is simply a page that tells your browser to go on to the next page. So when you hit the back button you go back a page, only to have that page push you right back to the page you just left.

There is nothing that a browser can reasonably do to get around this, the web-app developer would have to work around this.

[HenryMelton]

Click and hold the back button. Up pops a history list, choose the second one down and you'll skip over the redirect page to the previous real page.

[P]

Originally Posted by larkost 

There is nothing that a browser can reasonably do to get around this, the web-app developer would have to work around this.

Sure they can - they can try to detect the intermediate pages and just skip them when moving around in the history. Firefox does catch them sometimes - I think it depends on how the redirect is done.

[sartor]

Thanks to all for replies, but especially to henrymelton for the real fix to the problem!

Thanks!