F5 goes to my post

I have recently adopted a method of keeping track of a busy thread by dedicating a tab in Firefox for each thread in flat view, and using the window created by the browser to keep my place. When I get to the end of a thread, I get the "Page Y of Y" below the last post, and then later, I'll hit F5 on the keyboard to refresh, and the last post stays exactly where it is, and a new post replaces the "Page Y of Y" and pushes it further down. This makes it very, very easy to keep track of a thread.

The only problem is, if there is a post by me on the page, instead of the already-existing posts staying where they are in the browser, the page scrolls so that my post is at the top of the page, losing my place.

I would think that this has to be a bug; I can't imagine why anyone would purposely program this behavior.

F5 refreshes a page, what you currently have on the address bar, nothing more. When you open many tabs to same site, they all are under same session and cookies. So, without knowing what vbulletin does, reloading one tab will affect outcome of the next reload of all other tabs of same site for sure.

Pekka wrote in post #16746029
F5 refreshes a page, what you currently have on the address bar, nothing more. When you open many tabs to same site, they all are under same session and cookies. So, without knowing what vbulletin does, reloading one tab will affect outcome of the next reload of all other tabs of same site for sure.

Actually, having a post of my own on the page is the only thing preventing a refresh from doing exactly what I want, without scrolling the page. There is no cross-interference between the pages. I have been following four threads this way for about 2 months, and the only issue is when a post of mine is on the page; the page scrolls so that my first post on the page is at the top of the Firefox window.

The only other glitch is that if the system or Firefox crashes, I get the top of the page when I restore the previous session.