<p>The links that are generated in the search are different than the links that are associated with the individual post numbers. </p>
<p>The “undesireable” URL was created on the fly by the forum software in response to your search request, keyed to your own forum options. Post numbers don’t show up visibly in search results – instead they give you a line of text that you can click on. Since you have your forum options set to view more than the default number of posts per page, the software calculated the URL that you would need for viewing. (It’s math, done on the fly – that’s why sometimes when things are busy around the time that college results come out, the moderators often turn off the search function for a time – it can put a lot of burden on the server to be doing all of those calculations in response to all the search functions)</p>
<p>If I do the same search that you did - (“hindsight reed ego”) - I get this URL:
http:// talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1042025-daughter-talking-about-dropping-out-2.html#post1065985453</p>
<p>(Note that mine ends in “dropping-out-2.html” - signifying that it is creating a link on a different page than the page & link the software created for you. Because this is a web forum, the pages are generated on the fly by software pulling content from a database).</p>
<p>Again, it has nothing to do with the browser, it’s all happening server side.</p>