245251 - Unable to go Back previous page once in Help until there's a window history

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[tvuong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: 1.6

Once in Mozilla and wants to find out version of browser, help -> about Mozilla,
once you in this help page, unable to go back using <Back> Button, since it's 
grayed out.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bring up Mozilla
2. From Menu Bar -> Help -> ABout Mozilla


Actual Results:  
No Back Button, grayed out. 

Expected Results:  
Back Button/Gui should not be grayed out and able to Navigate back to previous 
page.

Comment 1

[u63580]

Doesn;t it open a new window?  Mine ceratinly does, hence no back.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Dietrich [:nidi]]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040601
(opens about-page in new window).

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

verified

Comment 4

[tvuong]

It opened the Help window, yet hence no back cuz "Back" Button grayed out ...
Need to be able to go back or previous page.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

Works as designed. 

What page do you expect it to go back to when you haven't visited any other help
page in that window yet?

It's kind of like when you first launch the browser, the back button is grayed
out because you've only been to the current page so far.

Comment 6

[Aaron Leventhal]

Or, maybe you're saying you've opened up the help window once, closed it, then
reopened it. At that point you might want to go back to the help screen you were
at before you closed the window. Is that what you mean?

Comment 7

[tvuong]

If the Help -> About Mozilla is to show version only. Then it should have 
a "CLOSE" button within the page to close this page when done. This is how it 
is done is most About page and also done in MS IE. Other wise, it does not help 
to navigate if "back" "forward" button grayed out. It should have a "Close" 
button to close out the page, if "back" n "forward" have no use.

Comment 8

[tvuong]

Also, would you please tell me when under what scenerio for the "back" 
n "forward" button are working within the Help -> About Mozilla page.

Comment 9

[Aaron Leventhal]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Also, would you please tell me when under what scenerio for the "back" 
> n "forward" button are working within the Help -> About Mozilla page.

If you click on a link in about mozilla, then you are in a new page. Back is now
enabled. Click back to go back to about:mozilla. Now forward is enabled. Click
forward and you're in the new page again.

Back means what it means when any new window is opened. It's related to history.
Not "go back to where I was before I went to help". I can see why you're
confused, but this is more of a a usability issue. It's certainly not an
accessibility API bug.

Comment 10

[Aaron Leventhal]

I think it would make the help window look more like a help window if it was
opened was not a full sized browser window.

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 12

[u63580]

This is as designed, so this is invalid