100268 - Back-button does not work, first item in Back-dropdown box is current page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Markus Pihlaja]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913
BuildID:    2001091303

Happens occasionally, at least two computers (win98/2k), on at least 0.9.3 and
0.9.4.
The back button does not work. If I use the drop-down box from Back-button the
first item on list is the current page. The item below that is the last page.
Choosing the second item works.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Normal surfing, read messageboards
2. Back button occasionally stops working.

Actual Results:  Back button does not return to previous page

Expected Results:  Back-button should return to previous page

Comment 1

[Jerome Lacoste]

I have the same bug once in a while. Had it this morning with 0.9.4. Confirm.

Comment 2

[David Illsley]

CONFIRMING based on comment by Jerome Lacoste

Comment 3

[basic]

this should be History Session

Comment 4

[Scott]

I have the same problem, and a "testcase" I guess.  (works every time to
reproduce the error)
Here are the steps to reproduce:

1) go to http://www.rsn.com/mtn_cams
2) click on "View active RSN Cam Images" at the top of the page
3) click on any of the pictures that appear to view an individual cam page
4) click on the cam picture to view the enlarged version
5) click on the back button
6) click on the back button
7) click on the back button
8) click on the back button

Ok, I think you'll get the idea by then.  The previous document loads correctly,
but after that it stops working correctly.  I have had this problem on multiple
sites (from mozilla.org to c|net and yahoo!) but this one is the easiest to
reproduce consistently.

Have a nice day!

Scott 

Oh, and I'm using build 2001102708 for Win32.  :)

Comment 5

[Paul Chen]

-> blake

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

reassigning to default owner...

Comment 7

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

claudius: can you  verify if this still exists? thanks.

Comment 8

[John Mildham]

Got the same problem with 0.9.7. I haven't inspected the source on the way
Mozilla processes history, but it looks like pages that have the same title
(frames...) are the bottleneck. Must be reported a dozen times now :) Pretty
irritating bug though...

Comment 9

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

In a latest build, I can not reproduce the bug at http://www.rsn.com/mtn_cams or 
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/. Please provide me more specific steps if it is
still reproducible. 

Comment 10

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Per previous comment.