Description of the issue: About a week ago the back button has become quite terrible. Before (and now on Chrome for example), it was bringing me back to where I was before the left click. Now - not always. For example, let’s click on [1] on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki This redirects us to t…

@Homotopy , Thank you for reaching out. I came here to ask the same questions as @JimB1 – can you confirm whether or not you get the same behavior under those conditions?

@Mattches @JimB1 I don’t have extensions. I have tried using a new profile today and for a long time it was fine, but now the first problem has returned. The second example I was not able to reproduce in the new profile. In a private window I tried a little bit and it was fine.

On my end, I am seeing the expected behavior: Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Scroll down to References and click on a (shown below) [image] This brings me to another spot on the page – namely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#cite_ref-Easy_Wiki_Hosting_1-0 Then, clicking the back bu…

In a different/clean profile. Does Brave Beta make any difference?

@ fanboynz As with a new user, at first it was fine, but only for a time being.

Unless its an extension causing?

@ fanboynz As I said above I don’t have any.

What version of Windows are you running? And any chance you’re getting low on disk space? I’m starting to wonder if this is manifesting as a result of some underlying ‘system’ problem.

Back button not working properly anymore

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JimB1 October 4, 2021, 11:37am 2

Does it happen with your extensions disabled? What about in a private window? Or in a new profile?

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