# Unable to go back to a previous page from account page
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [20.Июнь.2019 22:54:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948 "2019-06-20T22:54:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@debryc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/debryc)
#### Post date: [20.Июнь.2019 22:54:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948/1 "2019-06-20T22:54:09Z")
Hi, the following is happening for me.
1. Click on link to /my/preferences
2. Click on browser’s back button
Nothing happens
Would love this to be fixed!
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### Author:  [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [20.Июнь.2019 22:58:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948/2 "2019-06-20T22:58:39Z")
I can reproduce this on Meta! Thanks for reporting 🙂
[https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20.Июнь.2019 23:54:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948/4 "2019-06-20T23:54:13Z")
Hmm is this a new regression @sam or something we need to backport?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [20.Июнь.2019 23:57:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948/5 "2019-06-20T23:57:13Z")
Pretty sure there have been issues here for many years, last time I recall @eviltrout investigating this, can you have a look Robin?
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### Author:  [@lucasbasquerotto](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lucasbasquerotto)
#### Post date: [21.Июнь.2019 01:19:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948/7 "2019-06-21T01:19:10Z")
This seems to happen because [Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences) actually goes to `https://meta.discourse.org/u/user/preferences/` and then to `https://meta.discourse.org/u/user/preferences/account`.
You can see in the go back history the initial page and the `https://meta.discourse.org/u/user/preferences/` page.
If you go directly to `https://meta.discourse.org/u/user/preferences/account` the error doesn’t happen.
To fix it I think the url `https://meta.discourse.org/u/user/preferences/` shouldn’t go to history when you access (only `https://meta.discourse.org/u/user/preferences/account`).
This doesn’t happen when paste the url the browser.
**In my case:**
The problem happens: [https://meta.discourse.org/u/lucasbasquerotto/preferences/](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lucasbasquerotto/preferences/)
The problem doesn’t happen: [https://meta.discourse.org/u/lucasbasquerotto/preferences/account/](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lucasbasquerotto/preferences/account/)
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [21.Июнь.2019 18:43:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948/8 "2019-06-21T18:43:28Z")
This is another manifestation of a bug that has long plagued us. I believe this fix should last for a while, as it worked in all the cases I tried:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/02f6db4e59e03f49739be7e228641613dab0ae26](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/02f6db4e59e03f49739be7e228641613dab0ae26)
(the commit message has more detail.)
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Hmm is this a new regression
I suspect this has been here since our last Ember upgrade at least. Probably longer.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [21.Июнь.2019 23:49:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-go-back-to-a-previous-page-from-account-page/120948/10 "2019-06-21T23:49:46Z")