I guess not, although the page number is shown for you to see which page you are on, but you may forget where you were after you visit a particular link. It's improved to resolve the memory issue, I think. So when you browsed to page 10 and want to get back to page 3, it will reload for you seamlessly, rather than let the browser to keep all the pages in memory.

I agree the parent post, I'd like to keep where I was when I open each link in a new tab. Then the infinite scroll just helps to eliminate the click of the next page.