816474 - Opening a twitter link from another website causes the back button not to work on the tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 788497

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Attachment: logs

Nightly 20.0a1 2012-11-28/ Firefox Mobile 18.0b2
Samsung Galaxy S2 (Android 4.0.3)/ Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.1.1)

Steps:
1. Share a tweet via email to a gmail account
2. Load gmail.com and sign in using Firefox Mobile
3. Open the email and tap on the twitter link
4. After the tweet is displayed use the back button to go back to gmail.

Expected:
The user can go back to gmail.

Actual:
The back button does not work. The user is not taken back, the tab is not closed if opened from the context menu in a new tab or the app is not minimized.

Notes:
I am seeing these lines in the logs over and over again when tapping the back button multiple times without anything happening:
11-29 14:31:16.520 E/DataRouter( 1815): usb connection is true 
11-29 14:31:16.520 E/DataRouter( 1815): DSR is ON. Don't send DTR ON.
11-29 14:31:17.220 D/InputReader( 1974): Input event: value=1
11-29 14:31:17.235 I/InputDispatcher( 1974): Delivering key to current input target
11-29 14:31:17.235 I/InputDispatcher( 1974): Delivering key to current input target
11-29 14:31:17.295 D/InputReader( 1974): Input event: value=0
11-29 14:31:17.300 I/InputDispatcher( 1974): Delivering key to current input target
11-29 14:31:17.300 I/InputDispatcher( 1974): Delivering key to current input target
11-29 14:31:17.310 I/GeckoTabs(17318): Got message: SessionHistory:Back
11-29 14:31:17.320 I/GeckoTabs(17318): Got message: Content:LocationChange
11-29 14:31:17.320 D/GeckoTab(17318): Updated URL for tab with id: 1
11-29 14:31:17.430 I/GeckoTabs(17318): Got message: SessionHistory:New
11-29 14:31:17.435 I/GeckoTabs(17318): Got message: Content:LocationChange
11-29 14:31:17.435 D/GeckoTab(17318): Updated URL for tab with id: 1
11-29 14:31:17.670 I/GeckoScreenshot(17318): rect: 0.000000, 0.000000, 480.000000, 758.000000
11-29 14:31:17.680 I/GeckoScreenshot(17318): rect: 337.000000, 30.000000, 191.000000, 362.000000

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This sounds like twitter has a redirect, so going back just hits the redirect and makes it go forward again. Does it work on desktop (preferably try with the UA switcher set to fennec's UA)?

Comment 2

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

On desktop using the userAgent Updater 0.3 addon and the Android UA on Firefox 17 Realease on Linux when I tap on the twitter link the tweet is opened in a new tab not the same tab but I can see the back arrow being active but nothing happens when I press it. 

I can also see the same issue on Dolphin and Stock Browser so this may actually be a website bug.