title: Alternatives to disabling / disable back button in firefox and IE
body: <p>Our application forbids going back for several reasons. 
  Basically because that's just how our application works (JSF with facelets as GUI) 
  You always have to enter on the welcome site, once you chose an application-flow you can only leave / abort when you tell the application (e.g. press a button). If you just browse away e.g. enter "example.com" in the address bar the state of your flow gets saved and once you relogin, you can resume the work. Going back is only possible when it was specifically designed like this with a 'back' submit - button.
  Of course users keep pressing the 'back' button (i would do so as well) and they keep getting 'error: session out of synch'. This is a learning process and a couple years ago we just disabled the back-button to make things clear. Sadly this is no longer supported.
  So instead of teaching the user the hard way and forcing him to relogin, are there some good alternatives I'm missing?</p>
  
  <p>i found <a href="http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/buttons/article.php/3478911/Disabling-the-Back-Button.htm" rel="nofollow">this</a> link which should offer 3 methods to disable the back button - but in reality it just further confirms the fact that it is impossible to do it in a semi-nice way.</p>