Does this mean there is going to be a test. Nobody told me there was going to be a test!
If you mean the back arrow on your browser isn't lit, did you select open page in new window option? If you have a lot of FR windows on your desktop that would indicate that.
On the bottom, I can have one FR window open. When I open an article, the FR window splits in two and there are now two windows open.
Before the gremlins infected my machine, Only one window would be open. Where the words'FreeRepublic' was...would turn into what ever story I accessed. It doesn't do that now, it splits off to another window.