Back button is not doing what it should.

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Back button is not doing what it should.

I want to use Safari on my windows computer as well as my MacBook, but on my windows computer when I click on the back button, no matter how many tabs I've opened and no matter how many different pages I've been to, the back button sends me back to the Apple start page and closes every single one of my tabs. I don't understand why the back button behaves completely different on the windows version than the Mac version. The backspace/delete key works as the way the back button should, but clicking the button itself throws me back to the start page and closes everything I had open in other tabs.

Any idea why?

Safari-OTHER, Windows 7, Back button in Safari for Windows

Posted on Dec 3, 2011 10:32 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 3, 2011 10:37 PM in response to Eddy117

my windows computer when I click on the back button, no matter how many tabs I've opened and no matter how many different pages I've been to, the back button sends me back to the Apple start page and closes every single one of my tabs

Try emptying the Safari cache.

http://email.about.com/od/clearprivatebrowserdata/qt/Clear_Private_Data_Empty_Ca ches_and_Remove_Cookies_in_Safari.htm

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Dec 4, 2011 6:54 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Didn't change a thing. The back button still closes all my tabs and goes back to whatever was the first window open in safari when I launched it.

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man1c

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Dec 19, 2011 5:40 AM in response to Eddy117

Humm, I am exactly the same. Mac Safari doesn't do it but work PC Safari does exactly as you suggest. Hope someone has an idea otherwise its back to Chrome. Was hoping to use Safari for Cloud features etc!!

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Dec 28, 2011 8:23 PM in response to Eddy117

same problem here

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Dec 10, 2013 7:24 AM in response to Eddy117

Are you using any Safari extensions? I discovered that ClickToFlash had several shortcut keys enabled by default that were overriding my Safari commands, so once I deleted those, Safari started behaving properly again.

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