help.start search

Dear R experts,

When using R 2.1 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with Mozilla 1.7.6 as

There is no such version.  If you are using an alpha test of 2.1.0, please 
report exactly which one.  It is not relevant here, but could have been.

browser, help.start() almost works correctly.  When I follow one of the
search result links everything is fine, but when I go back to follow
another link, I find them all inactive.  So I have to redo the search.

Any suggestions?

Use another browser or live with it.

It is a known Mozilla quirk (shared by all the browsers that use the 
Mozilla engine).  As far as I recall, Opera and IE6 do this correctly, but 
I just live with it.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595