The worst part is when you eventually make it back, it loses your position on the page. They made this change years ago and it still drives me nuts.
Update: This is no longer the case. I can not reproduce this any more. Great!
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look
by zzo38computer on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:06PM
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I disable all sorts of features on Wikipedia (and MediaWiki sites in general; why can't it support a cookie to automatically change these settings, so that you (the end user) can copy your preferences between MediaWiki instances merely by copying a cookie?), and would want to disable some others as well, such as the custom widgets and most animations. I do want some of the features that use JavaScript, but not all of them. The browser should have a better way for the user to adjust individual scripts.
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Setting? Where?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
Uncheck "Enable Media Viewer" and then click "Save" at the very bottom.
You need to be logged in for that, though :-(
1: Go to a page.
2: Click on an image.
3: Close the image.
4: Click the browser back button.
I am now at the image again. This is surprising and I cannot seem to learn this.