Hyperlinked footnotes creating excessive “back” history

The plugin notes on github say that the footnotes were made into hyperlinks to make the plugin function when javascript is disabled. However, making them hyperlinks totally messes with normal website navigation.

When you hit the back button, it doesn’t go to the previous page if you’ve clicked a footnote. Instead it treats every time you click a footnote or “scroll/return arrow” as another webpage in your history. So if you clicked 10 footnotes then clicked the “scroll/return arrow” 10 times, you would have to hit the back button 21 times to go back to your previous webpage.

This makes the plugin completely unusable and I had to roll back to version 1.6.6 to get it working properly again.

Please return to the previous system, or at least make the previous system an option. Almost no one disables javascript, but almost everyone uses the browser’s back button. (A little Googling suggests that only ~1% have Javascript disabled, and they’ll be techies who know that can cause issues.)