How to get out of some web sites

27col

I have asked a similar question before, but the problem still persists. I was looking for a spare part for my Fiat and called up a list of car breakers sites. I then went to one of them and having found that they did not have what I wanted tried to get back to the Google list. I could not get out of the website and had to Regoogle to get to the list again. The Nationwide website is another that I cannot get put of either. Any suggestions gratefully received

terra_ferma

27col wrote: »

I have asked a similar question before, but the problem still persists. I was looking for a spare part for my Fiat and called up a list of car breakers sites. I then went to one of them and having found that they did not have what I wanted tried to get back to the Google list. I could not get out of the website and had to Regoogle to get to the list again. The Nationwide website is another that I cannot get put of either. Any suggestions gratefully received

What I do (using Firefox) is to click and keep pressed on the back <- button, rather than just click once, so instead of going back one step, you get a short browing history and you can go straight back to wherever you want to be. If it doesn't go back enough you can click on history and go further back.

closed

coding of some sites can cause this, as can host file ad blocking.

AlecEiffel

I often right click and open the link in a new tab. That way if I get stuck I can just close the one tab and the previous page is still open.

Mista_C

You can always right-click the 'back' arrow to get a reverse list of pages you traversed to get to the current page.

retsbed

Hold down the control key before you click a link, it will open in a new tab. That way you always have your search results available in a tab :-)

forgotmyname

I agree, If following a link to a new site, Open it in a new window or new tab.

Much easier.

If a site is slow to load or there are several sites i want to compare prices on i open them all at the same time.
Then check the fastest one to load 1st.

kwikbreaks

If the site does a redirect then "back" will take you to the page containing the redirect which will then put you right back where you came from.

As already mentioned the easiest way out is to open the link in a fresh tab - google search settings include that as an option or you can right click and specify it. Clicking my mouse wheel also does it but I maybe specified that somewhere sometime so it may not be standard.

If you didn't use a fresh tab clicking back twice quickly usually gets you back.

terra_ferma

kwikbreaks wrote: »

If the site does a redirect then "back" will take you to the page containing the redirect which will then put you right back where you came from.

As already mentioned the easiest way out is to open the link in a fresh tab - google search settings include that as an option or you can right click and specify it. Clicking my mouse wheel also does it but I maybe specified that somewhere sometime so it may not be standard.

If you didn't use a fresh tab clicking back twice quickly usually gets you back.

Not if you hold the back button, it will show several pages history, and unless you have visited several pages on the same website, it will allow you to bypass the block.

Cooper18

Clicking the back button a few times in quick succession usually works for me.

Jivesinger

Which browser are you using? Are the tabs visible to you?

If not (eg. Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 using the default butoon from the Start Screem) then it may be that the actual website is opening a new tab or window for you, in a similar way to described above.

Once you're in a new tab, no amount of pressing the back button will get you back; you have to close the tab or switch tabs back to where you were.