Back button problem in IE6

[wo_wo]

When browsing a data-intense, J2EE-driven website, I experience the
following behaviour: The contents of the back button dropdown list max
out at 6-7 items, in some cases even only 2-3; the rest is being
dropped. Consequently, after going back these numbers of steps, the
back button becomes disabled.

I'm using IE6 (6.0.2800.1106 SP1) on W2K with standard Internet and
Security settings and only the Quicktime and Flash plugins, no other
3rd party tools.

The behaviour is similar to the one described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q229684/, but this KB entry says the
bug should be fixed even in IE5. Could it be that there's a regression?
Are there any known workarounds?

Thanks for your help!
Wolfgang

 

[Rob ^_^]

Ne Ho wo wo,

The back and forward buttons only retain the navigation history for the
current domain (web site). It may be that the data-intense, J2EE-driven
website you mention (a url would be helpful) is navigating across domains
and so the Navigation History is being reset each time it navigates to a new
domain. This is a design fault of the web site concerned who should provide
a navigation interface independant of the browser type.

Regards.

 

[wo_wo]

Thanks for your answer. The website in question is
http://www.projektwerk.de, and I experience the behaviour I described
when visiting different pages there, without changing the domain or the
protocol. You can try it by clicking some of the links in the main
navigation at the top of the page.

Any suggestion what may cause this behaviour?

Thanks in advance
Wolfgang