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Re:Jazz – Apps with Distributed State by kspacewalk2 on Monday October 07, 2024 @04:34PM (#41770725)
>I had to spam click back like 30 times to get back to this hacker news comment thread

Click-and-holding or right-clicking the back button will give you a list of last N URLs in your tab history. This page only generates one auto-redirect, so the HN URL will show up.

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Re:Jazz – Apps with Distributed State by ddoolin on Monday October 07, 2024 @04:50PM (#41770906)
Thank you for this. Many years of browser usage and I never knew this.
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Re:Jazz – Apps with Distributed State by scoopr on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @04:26AM (#41774972)
Such is the years long removal of affordance from the UI. Netscape 4 had a small downwards arrow to indicate a submenu for the backbutton.
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Re:Jazz – Apps with Distributed State by cassepipe on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @06:24AM (#41775713)
On Firefox it apparently disappeared in 2011

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/%5BArticle%...

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Re:Jazz – Apps with Distributed State by NetOpWibby on Monday October 07, 2024 @05:22PM (#41771211)
Just tried this in Arc and Firefox...I never knew.
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Re:Jazz – Apps with Distributed State by abrookewood on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:51PM (#41773067)
Wow .. you've just removed a massive source of frustration - thank you.
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