Inexplicable difference

[Palinurus]

Greetings to whom this may concern or interest.

For years I was reading forumthreads as a guest. I used to take one board or subboard (for instance: recent posts) as my 'working base' and proceeded from there to specific threads, opening those in a new tab (I use Opera as browser). The new tab opens next to the one I start from, which itself allways remained unchanged.

Well, doing exactly the same thing while logged in as a registered user I notice a strange difference in the 'working base' board: it changes to the thread I want to read or contribute to, and does not hold on to my starting point anymore. So I end up with two identical tabs next to each other. Which means I now can no longer switch easily between boards/threads but also have to use the backward arrow button constantly to get back to my working base.
This is rather annoying - to say the least; but even more annoying than this little inconvenience is the fact that I cannot explain or comprehend how this minor difference in result can occur - nor am I able to 'undo' this bizar occurrence on my own.

Any suggestions anyone? Help will be much appreciated...

 

[Tigersoap]

Hi Palinurus,

I use Opera and it does not display this behavior, are you using the latest Opera version (11) ?
Have you tried with another forum or websites to see if it does that as well ?

 

[Palinurus]

Addendum:

I just noticed one more 'bizar' thing - must be my lucky day then.

After posting here, I subsequently went to the recent posts subboard (of all places!) and I did NOT experience the above phenomenon there - which at least explains to me why I didn't notice it previously.

But it still does when I am in here or when I start from the Home-board. Which is to say that this problem seems not to be paramount on all boards/subboards. Alas I don't quite know where it does or does not since I haven't visited all of them yet...

 

[HiThere]

I use Opera and earlier Firefox and have the same experience. It can be solved by right-clicking on the topic you want to look at and then choose "open in new tab".

 

[Palinurus]

Hi Tigersoap,

Yes I'm allways trying to be as much up to date as possible with all programs I use, so indeed I do have Opera 11 working. This never occurred anywhere else to date - that's why I made my initial post about it in the first place. It did strike me as a very odd anomaly.

Thank you Hithere - I will try that. Might be a workable workaround so to say.

 

[Palinurus]

Hi Hithere,

I tried your suggestion and it works fine - so problem solved. Thanks! ;)

For the record:
I would like to add that the above mentioned problem also strikes while being at the newbiethread. So that makes three.

 

[Beau]

It's not just you, it has happened to me to. I just checked and it doesn't do it anymore, but previously if I was on the homepage and clicked any specific board, it would open the page in a new tab and in the current tab I was on.

 

[Palinurus]

Thank you Heimdallr. We may conclude there might be some glitch somewhere in the software of the site. Try the solution Hithere offered - it worked for me...