Back button settings (Old vs New)

So, what are you using? Old back button setting or new one?

I use old one because i just can't get used to go back through all the tabs in player profile.

I also use the old one. The new one is awful.

I gave the new one a go for quite a while but eventually switched back to the old one.

Wait, how do you switch back to the old one?

Preferences - untick 'enable full player browsing history'

yup i hate the new way it works, so i set it up like it used to be.

i hated it but didn't realise you could go back to how it previously was. now its back to the old way, that's the way i like it.

Certainly old. The new just doesn't do what it should do.

Gave the new way a chance, but it didn't work for me.

Old way is the way for me.

I use the new way currently, have tried both in FM12.

Yes I get frustrated if I have been going through about 10 screens on a player page, but find it is much better for me as I regularly go from transfer/contract offer to the attributes page/scout report etc and then can just click back to get there, which the old method doesn't provide.

I think both have benefits, but the new one just doesn't seem to be 100% workable yet...been having a play to see what ideas I can suggest to make it better as I assume this is the way it will be going in future.

the new one is just AWFUL.... i don't understand why they thought they needed to change it

Certainly old. The new one just doesn't feel right and makes no sense to go back only one tab when you can easily click with mouse and choose any tab you want.

wow didnt even know you could change it back. so frustrating having to click back so much

Preferences - untick 'enable full player browsing history'

I use the old. I have to say that I want to use the new, but damn SI really needs to make their UI more like Firefox with tabs and stuff. I only use the old one because the new one is almost an Alpha rather than finished product.

At the very least, they should have made it clear that you can go back to the old way. So many people, myself included, didn't realise this until reading it on here.

Old back by a huge margin. New back paging through all the player pages is just.... ugh..

We can change back? Brilliant, will do that now.

I can't understand the benefit of the new way, the old one did the job perfectly. I like to click on a player, go through his various pages and then hit 'back' to go back to the shortlist or squad screen, not to go back through all those pages that can be accessed with one click anyway.

Preferences - untick 'enable full player browsing history'

thx man, gotta say I hate the new system.

We can change back? Brilliant, will do that now.

I can't understand the benefit of the new way, the old one did the job perfectly. I like to click on a player, go through his various pages and then hit 'back' to go back to the shortlist or squad screen, not to go back through all those pages that can be accessed with one click anyway.

Pretty much this, you can access what you want with a click anyway, it makes no sense to me, at least they let you change it back.

Much prefer old style. I don't often need to go from Inbox to Contract, Attributes, History........History, Attributes, Contract to Inbox.

What is the back button settings?

Thought I'd hate the 'new' way when it went in but really do prefer it. Perhaps there coul be some functionality tweaks at some point (no idea how feasible that'd be mind) but think it does make sense like this. Also for those who end up pressing 'back' numerous times you do realise if you hold you can choose which screen to go back to right?

This reeks of "if it's not broken, then don't fix it".

It wasn't working the way a browser should with screen history. The ability to hold and go back to any number of pages works quite well I find.

The idea behind a "back" button is that "previous state" is useful to return to. For example, if I open up Google and search for something, then click one of the links, it is useful for me to return to the "previous state" that is the search results. This is because I may wish to pick another search result, or search again.

For a player's profile's tabs, however, I am not convinced that "previous state" is necessarily useful. I'd treat these tabs as an extension of a player's profile. An analgous browser example would be clicking a search result, which produces a webpage that is 4 screens long. I press "Page Down" three times as I read the webpage in a sequential manner. However, when I press the "back" key, I am not expecting the rough equivalent of a "Page Up" button press, requiring me to press "back" four times to return to the search results. This is because I have read the webpage and do not necessarily need to read it again. If you like, if you clicked all the tabs in sequential order, then (without loss of generality) you do not necessarily want to reread the information on the tabs, nor is there useful functionality that needs repeating in a similar way.

If, on a webpage, you wished to reread part of the webpage, or there was something you could functionally do on a previous part of that webpage, you would scroll up manually. The same analogy would be clicking a tab, then clicking it again later (without going "back").

For a "back" button to work, there has to be a fundamental change of state such that traversal in both directions makes some functional sense. However, changing "tabs" is very different to changing "pages" and I am not convinced that changing "tabs" warrants a "back" button. In fact, on a webpage, if I had a page with "tabbing" functionality (something like this: http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/tabber/), I would not immediately consider "back" to be a useful thing to scroll "back" through tabs.

I didn't realize that there are so many people not knowing you could use the old back button settings. It's cool that they know now, cause I find the new style very frustrating (and I know the majority of old FM hardcore players are too) and it's great that SI gave us a choice on this.

Fianlly, a reason to read the forums.

I have to admit I like the browser feel of the new system.

i was gettin used too the new one :confused: