Don't track me Google

By Rob W Last update Apr 25, 2013 — Installed 36,066 times.

Possible back button bug

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Kevin Pacheco User
ChromeMacintosh

Thanks for releasing the script. It's useful and speeds up my browsing a bit (I noticed redirect delays from Google's result links).

One thing I noticed: I think the script is causing an issue with back button behavior that causes the search results page to get "lost." I'm using Chrome stable on a Mac. Follow these steps to reproduce:

1. Open a new tab in Chrome.
2. Type a search term into the Omnibox (the address bar) and hit Enter.
3. Click the first organic result link.
4. After the page loads, hit the back button.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 clicking the second result, third result, etc. in turn.

It won't be long before the back button takes you to Chrome's New Tab page. In other words, the SERP effectively goes missing and doesn't even appear on the drop-down list when you hold down Chrome's back or forward arrows.

 
Rob W Script's Author
Firefox

Thanks for the report, I am going to investigate further, by digging even deeper in the obfuscated source code.

 
Rob W Script's Author
Firefox

I have fixed the issue and uploaded a new version of this script.