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Q: [Safari] Problem with browser back button

Hello community,

 

I experienced some problem during browsing with Safari:

if I visit a site from a Google search and then I go back to the search results page does not load leaving completely empty: I need to manually refresh the page in order to see the page.

Does anyone have experienced this issue?

My OS is the most updated Yosemite.

 

Thank you.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jul 2, 2015 1:01 PM

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  • by scotto75,

    scotto75 scotto75 Jul 12, 2015 7:34 AM in response to Mapple89
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    Jul 12, 2015 7:34 AM in response to Mapple89

    I had the same issue using the back button after searching using Safari and Google when I run Snow Leopard. Blank screen, then press refresh and the results reappear.

     

    Thought Yosemite would be different, but no. I'm getting exactly the same. Get a list of search results from Google. I select one, have a look, hit the back button and get a blank page. I have to refresh the page to get the results back, and so on and so on. Bit boring after a couple of years of this happening.

     

    My solution..... Firefox and Chrome. Job done.

  • by JMohr,

    JMohr JMohr Jul 18, 2015 8:33 AM in response to Mapple89
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    Jul 18, 2015 8:33 AM in response to Mapple89

    This started happening for me to after updating to Safari 7.1.7.... I am (still) running Mavericks 10.9.5. 

     

    I submitted Feedback to Apple, since this wasn't happening before the Safari update.

    http://www.apple.com/feedback

     

    It's more of an annoyance than anything.  I just press Command+R after clicking the Back button to make the results show up again in Google.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jul 19, 2015 7:26 AM in response to JMohr
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    Jul 19, 2015 7:26 AM in response to JMohr

    10.10

     

    Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items.  Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History and Web Site Data. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.

     

    Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

     

    Safari Corruption       See post by Linc Davis


    10.9 and lower


    Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items.  Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Reset Safari. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.

     

    Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

  • by philsh,

    philsh philsh Jul 19, 2015 7:51 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Jul 19, 2015 7:51 AM in response to Eric Root

    ^^ tried this more than once.  No change.

  • by Richard Rolff,

    Richard Rolff Richard Rolff Jul 19, 2015 8:16 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Jul 19, 2015 8:16 AM in response to Eric Root

    didn't help ( as Phish indicates as well)

  • by the5thbeatle,

    the5thbeatle the5thbeatle Jul 19, 2015 1:45 PM in response to Mapple89
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    Jul 19, 2015 1:45 PM in response to Mapple89

    Same problem here. It's not because of Yosemite, because I'm not running Yosemite (it's not compatible with InDesign, so I couldn't upgrade to it).
    It's a safari problem, it started after updating to 7.1.7
    Fat lot of good these forums do.  Does anyone have any real answers?

  • by Urbain De Langhe,

    Urbain De Langhe Urbain De Langhe Jul 20, 2015 12:20 AM in response to the5thbeatle
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    Jul 20, 2015 12:20 AM in response to the5thbeatle

    I had the same problem, but solved it by deleting AdBlocker from my Safari-extensions. The problem was not Safari but AdBlocker. (Preferences : extensions: Adblocker : delete)

  • by freituk,

    freituk freituk Jul 20, 2015 12:37 AM in response to Urbain De Langhe
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    Jul 20, 2015 12:37 AM in response to Urbain De Langhe

    This problem have nothing to do with extension. I never used extensions and all my 4 macs have the problem.

    It's a safari problem when dealing with google search cache

  • by philsh,

    philsh philsh Jul 20, 2015 4:15 AM in response to freituk
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    Jul 20, 2015 4:15 AM in response to freituk

    Same here.  I do not use extensions and never have.

     

    I bet the problem starts up again for you.

  • by dfreniche,

    dfreniche dfreniche Jul 21, 2015 2:16 AM in response to Mapple89
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    Jul 21, 2015 2:16 AM in response to Mapple89

    In my case, this solved the problem. Using Safari  8.0.7 (10600.7.12) on Yosemite 10.10.4

     

    Just go to Safari Preferences > Search and uncheck these two options (screen shown in Spanish, will translate but not sure if that's the same you'll see):

     

    Captura de pantalla 2015-07-21 a las 11.11.48.png

    Uncheck:

    - activate quick web search

    - preload best result in background

     

    Hope this helps

  • by scotto75,

    scotto75 scotto75 Jul 21, 2015 3:03 AM in response to dfreniche
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    Jul 21, 2015 3:03 AM in response to dfreniche

    Didn't work for me I'm Afraid.

     

    I agree with freituk. It's a problem with Safari and Google search.

  • by philsh,

    philsh philsh Jul 21, 2015 5:17 AM in response to scotto75
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    Jul 21, 2015 5:17 AM in response to scotto75

    Those were already unchecked for me. So...

     

    I bought this computer, new, from an Apple store May 1st. I have no extensions.  It has happened since late (?) June.  So I know that its not a large cache issue, or an extension.  Seems like we all started complaining about it around the same time.  First days of July.

     

    http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/safari-blank-page-when-you-hit-back-button.1 898451/

  • by mwgrabau,

    mwgrabau mwgrabau Jul 21, 2015 8:24 AM in response to philsh
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    Jul 21, 2015 8:24 AM in response to philsh

    Same problem after recent update.  I disabled my ad blocker (AdBlock Plus) for google.com: go to google.com, then uncheck "Enabled on this site" in the AdBlock Plus menu.  That fixed it.

  • by aapl.crox,

    aapl.crox aapl.crox Jul 26, 2015 12:24 PM in response to mwgrabau
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    Jul 26, 2015 12:24 PM in response to mwgrabau

    I disabled adblock all together and still having the same problem. Whats the real fix?

  • by philsh,

    philsh philsh Jul 26, 2015 12:43 PM in response to aapl.crox
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    Jul 26, 2015 12:43 PM in response to aapl.crox

    Best I can tell... its live with it or chrome

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