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Websights Tips Archive
Bypassing the Back Button   In your lifetime so far, how many times have you clicked your Web browser's Back button? 10,000? 100,000? a million?


Use your mouse to click the tiny arrow just to the right of the actual Back button
Here's a Web browser tip that will save you from clicking the Back button several times in a row when you want to jump back several pages at once to a previous location.

Internet Explorer: In the top left corner of the screen, use your mouse to click the tiny arrow just to the right of the actual Back button. The arrow drops down a menu displaying the titles of the last several websites you've visited, in reverse order.

Netscape Navigator: You'll see the small downward-pointing arrow integrated into the Back button. To activate the menu of visited pages, click and hold down your mouse button over the Back button.

  • The Forward button also offers this feature to let you skip forward several pages.