10008 - Back button goes to the wrong position on the previous page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 3891

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P1)

Description

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Back button takes you to the top of the previous page, not the position from
which you followed the link. This makes following a long article with
references very difficult. IE gets this right. From a Slashdot post (in the M8
announcement thread):

> Speaking of the "back" button, it is still broken: like Netscape, it takes
> one to the TOP of the previous page, rather than to the link on the previous
> page that was used to proceed to another page. This, IMO, makes it unusable
> for browsing: if I click on a link at http://www.freshmeat.net/ and then
> return later to resume reading Freshmeat, I expect it to take me where I
> left off, not dump me at the top of the page to spend a minute finding my
> place again.
>
> IE seems to have figured out this little feature. What's wrong with the
> Netscape guys?

Comment 1

[don]

Well, this is really just a missing feature ... :-)

Comment 2

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3891 ***

Comment 3

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

verified dup