Have you considered open the stories in a new tab and then close that tab when you finish reading the story?

That way the original page won't need to be reloaded due to a No Cache header which many times forces the page to be reloaded from the website and not from the Cache where your "position" on the page is remembered.

I already have tools/options/ open new window in new tab marked and still doesn't open as new tab. is there another place i need to set this?

Ctrl plus Click or a Middle-click on the hyperlink will both open the hyperlink in a new Tab.

Not the most ideal solution but it works. Thank you. Problem not solved.

Open a new tab is a fine solution for OP's problem but it doesn't answer the problem of a page reload taking the user to the top of the page.

As a front end dev this is infuriating having to scroll each time to the position of part of a page I am working on after reload. Can this not be configured? Sadly I'm about to switch to Chrome because of this.

Those pages may be instructing Firefox not to cache the page and in such a case you won't return to the previous position if you use the Back button.

Hmm I think I found my issue, There's a bug with Modernizr in Firefox which is causing the behaviour & since I had modernizr on all the sites I was testing with it seemed to be an issue with Firefox. Link to the issue on github in case anyone else is having this problem https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/issues/720

What is modernizer? Is it loaded automatically when Firefox is loaded or is it an add on?

I've been having the same problem since upgrading to 20 (I'm now on 21). I am visiting the same sites I always have and every one of them is displaying this problem, so it's not a matter of every single one of them suddenly instructing my browser not to cache.

For example, I'll go to a busy comment thread in a blog, reach the end, and refresh. Several more comments will have been posted, but the page reloads to display the beginning of the page. I have to scroll down a long time to finally see the new comments. Up to version 19, the reload would be "in place": the last viewed comment would be at the top of the screen (not the beginning of the page) and I could see all new comments immediately.

I'm not running Modernizr.

Data point: PDFs weren't opening properly either, but I just deleted mimeTypes.rdf and restarted, and this fixed the problem. Is there anything else in my profile I can examine or edit that could be related to this reload problem?

I have a theory. Some web pages may change their content, What you see may not be there later. The web page may change to a different layout or what ever. Because the page you want does not exist as you saw it before, it defaults to the top of the updated page.

this would only apply to only one of the sites I have the problem with. This being a newspaper site. but they don't change their layout as often as I open a new page and it happens with every new page. Thanks all the same

It may not take a layout change or the addition of a newer article, it might be advertisement rotation or the changing of advertisements - as the "new content".

I found an add-on that does this Open link in new tab. Works well but options have to be changed when working normally or numerous new tabs are opened needlessly. This opening of a new tab is a solution but I is almost a infuriating as the original problem. A permanent solution is still preferred.

I have found a few web sites that do return me to the position I left. AOL News site to name one.

For some reason, 22 now reloads pages properly. It didn't do so right away (or at least I didn't notice it) but it works now.

So if anyone is still having problems, check that you've upgraded to 22.

I have 22.0. I am set to check and download any updates automatically. Perhaps thats the reason a few sites work properly but the majority don't. I don't know anything about programming but I think the above action signals that a delay needs to be added somewhere in the reset path,but I wouldn't know where to start.