Internet Explorer's back button shows «processing» - javascript

I have a strange issue with Internet Explorer [sic!].
When navigating through my pages, the back-button alwasy shows «processing» as the last entry - and after that the pages I really accessed. I always have to click the back-button twice (at least) to make the browser access the last visited page.
The pages have some jQuery in it as well as a linked in follow-button (that sometimes shows < > instead of the button when I click the back-button).
The linkedIn-Button is added via Javascript and resides in an iFrame - and I read some posts that iFrames can break IE's back-button. Alas, when I remove the linkedIn-Button, the problem persists...
I might also add, that the page is called with https (which might cause other problems in IE?)
Any ideas???

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