Before, it used to be possible to hold the back/forward buttons and thus see a list of pages you’ve been, and jump to them. Then an “update” happened, I think one or two years ago, and the function hasn’t been seen since.
This means that if a webpage for whatever reason sticks you on it (not a fault of the browser, some websites just do that), you can’t ever leave, because “back” just basically refreshes the page.
With the function to jump back, it’s not an issue. I may have a tab with lots of search results or other pages behind me which I want to get back to, but now that tab is ruined, so I can’t find where I was. This happens fairly often.
If it can’t be fixed, I’ll just have to change browser, because this basically breaks it.
Additional thing that happened today and which I can’t explain: I was on page A, went from there to a google search result, page B. Clicked in and read other things, page, C, D, E, etc. Now I went back to page A and wanted to return from before that, and it sent me on a loop between page A and B, over and over again, only clicking the back button. Again, if I could jump back, this wouldn’t have happened.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Try clicking and holding the back button. It does nothing, you can only go back once at a time.
Brave 1.52.130, Chromium 114.0.5735.198
Samsung Galaxy S21