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This page will wreck your browser history. The post explains the rationale at the end, but frankly speaking there should have been the warning for each checkbox
by lifthrasiir 8y ago
This page will wreck your browser history. The post explains the rationale at the end, but frankly speaking there should have been the warning for each checkbox.
- ballenf 8y agoYour comment made me realize that there are people who curate their browser history (other than just removing problematic stuff). Not criticizing, just never considered that was something anyone cared about.
- ofrobots 8y agoIt made the back button useless for me.
- craftycode 8y agoI didn't experience that using Chrome. What browser are you using?
- schemathings 8y agoHappened to me with Chrome on OS/X - no way back!
- archon810 8y agoChrome on Android for me. Had to close the tab.
- misterdoubt 8y agoSame with Firefox on Android.
- uneekname 8y agoI had this problem in Chrome on linux.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoIf you curate your browser history, this is an easy fix. This is more of a problem for people like me who occasionally check their browser history because they want to revisit a site they were on recently.
- craftycode 8y agoIt shouldn't. It uses history.replaceState(). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API#The_replaceState()_method https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API...
- alangpierce 8y agoIt actually just updates window.location.hash instead, which does cause a flood of history entries (looks like just one per distinct animation state, though, at least in Chrome). See the "One Last Thing" section near the bottom of the article for the rationale. See the inline code snippets in the article, or view source for wavyurl.com to see the actual code used.
- eridius 8y agoAt least in Safari, history.replaceState() still pollutes the browser history, all it does is avoid breaking the back button.
- hyeomans 8y agoI think it also crashed LittleSnitch
- core1024 8y agoIf you're using Firefox you can Control+H then right click on the site and select the option labeled "Forget About This Site". Done.
- grimgrin 8y agoNot tackling the same problem but in the spirit of removing things and Firefox, you can bring up a url in the address bar, press down arrow, press Delete, and it'll go away It only deletes that very specific url though, like foo.com, however foo.com/bar will still exist
- lifthrasiir 8y agoI think that only works before Sync replicates all those crufts to every other device.
- NikkiA 8y agoWow, that took multiple minutes to run here. Well done to the author of this hack on finding a way to dump massive amounts of data to firefox's sqlite store.
- Diti 8y agoI’m on mobile. The checkboxes had no effect, the code run on its own by default. And I gave up on trying to go back to Lobsters by using the Back button.