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Why does my google search criteria vanish when I hit the back button now?

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And why do I have to go through the trouble of hitting refresh to bring my search criteria back? I don't remember this being an issue half a year ago.
 
The web designers at Google/Youtube are complete retards who "change" (break) things just for the sake of changing them.

Changes I've noticed recently:
- Google now reorders the Images, Shopping, etc tabs based on what you search for. So instead, of knowing that Images is always immediately to the right of Search, it changes and I keep clicking on Shopping instead of Images.
- When viewing a Youtube channel, you get a side scrolling list of videos they have uploaded and videos they have liked. To actually view all of the channel's videos in a grid format, you have to scroll to the right multiple times and then click "More" when it finally appears.
 
The NSA is only capable of Cut and Paste. It's for a very technical reason, but basically it makes it far more difficult to trace.


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So it's a bug? I thought maybe it may have been a vain attempt at covering peoples searches on a public computer or something if somebody hit the back button. That seems like a fairly annoying mess up to leave in such a prominent website.
 
I thought this was just me or an issue with FF.

What browsers you using? I'm using latest Firefox.

It doesn't happen in IE 10 for me (but I hate IE).
 
Are you pressing the Enter key after you type your search terms? ...or are you just looking at the live/automatic search results?
 
I get 144,000 hits for "Has Google jumped the shark?" and 148,000 for "Google has jumped the shark". The preponderance of evidence suggests that Google has jumped the shark.
 
I routinely use Backspace as my browser back button keyboard shortcut instead of Alt + Left Arrow because it's a single key. Sometimes I see something that makes me want to back up to something I saw earlier to open in a tab next to what I have now or something, which requires me to navigate back then forward through the back buffer (browser's navigation history).

I usually refined some search queries and need to go back to a previous page of search results. When using Backspace out of habit, I can't stand that the Google Search text field always steals focus and makes me backspace the search query, generating a new search result and dumping the forward buffer. When that happens I can't move forward in my navigation history to get where I was and the link is likely gone in the new search results too. Hopefully I remember my new search terms.

Instead of retraining myself to use the mouse or Alt + Left Arrow, I began using the browser's search bar with my old search queries in it. It's persistent even after I'm long gone and it generates a new page in my back buffer when I refine my search terms. It doesn't work too well in Chrome's Omnibox, but in Firefox it works beautifully.
 
Sonikku said:
And why do I have to go through the trouble of hitting refresh to bring my search criteria back? I don't remember this being an issue half a year ago.
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IT pros fixing something until it is broken. You know the kind of experts that go about relabeling an unfixable bug as a feature.
 
Did anyone notice that last month you had to double-click to go back to the forums? Random times I would get "double-click" or "back" to forums as I hovered over the back arrow. Now it is gone.
 
This, getting rid of the discussions filter in search, the New and Improved Gmail with Social and Promotions tabs...

I'm thinking about jumping ship....to Microsoft?!

I get that it's their servers and software to do with as they please. I also get that they are profiting handsomely off our use of those systems, something that we don't *have* to do. If they start losing sight of their bread and butter perhaps it's time for a new player to take the reign.
 
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