When scrolling up in HTML e-mail, last visited link opens

asked 2014-07-20 15:55:07 +0300

Elliott gravatar image

updated 2014-07-24 13:02:04 +0300

eric gravatar image

This is a minor annoyance that I've seen for a while now; I thought I saw another post about it a while back but can't find it now so apologies if this is a duplicate.

Every morning I get an HTML e-mail with headlines from the newspaper (NY Times). It's several screens long, so there's a lot of scrolling to get to the bottom. I can click links in it fine; if I press a link the web browser opens, I read the article, then close the browser. When I get to the bottom of the e-mail, I have to scroll back to the top to delete it (side note - it would be nice to have the top pulley duplicated at the bottom so one doesn't have to scroll all the way back up). If I followed no links in the window, I scroll up to the top and delete the message and all is fine.

If I followed a link in the mail, as I pass that link again on the way back up, the web browser pops back up and re-displays that page, as if I pressed the link again. After months of paranoia I'm 100% sure that I'm not just pressing the link again, and it's always the last link I followed (if I follow several links, only the last one does this). This happens in any HTML e-mail, though there are not many that I get that are long enough to require scrolling.

Has anyone else encountered this, or am I just going nuts?

Thanks!

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fascinating! It's not just you, I can confirm this strange behavior.

Regarding reaching the pulley, there's a request to enabla fast scroll somewhere here...

Mohjive ( 2014-07-20 19:59:24 +0300 )edit

I do see the page up/down (fast scroll?) buttons on long html mail but even if I use the fast up button, it still visits the link. Definitely strange!

Elliott ( 2014-07-23 03:31:01 +0300 )edit