1160850 - Last parts (including the current page) of some tabs' history are lost

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1044556

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicolae Albu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150320202338

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox.
Open multiple tabs (it happened with 3 so it should be enough).
Navigate to different pages multiple times on all tabs ensuring that you have multiple history items on all tabs.
Switch between Firefox and a different Android application (in my case, a file manager) multiple times.
Use one tab for more time than another.
Switch to the least used tab.


Actual results:

The tab reloads, not with the last page, but with a previous one.
For example, if I browsed A -> B -> C -> D, the current page on the tab will not be the last one (D), but an older one (maybe B).

The forward button is greyed out, so I cannot go forward to C or D.

This happens regardless of "normal" or private browsing.
It can't be reproduced consistently, I couldn't find a pattern.

I tend to think it's related to:
- Switching between tabs
- Switching between Firefox and other Android applications
- Tab reloading / memory


Expected results:

The current page on each tab should be the last one (unless I manually navigate back).

Comment 1

[Nicolae Albu]

I think it is important to mention that the device I'm having this problem with is a low RAM (768 MB) device.

Comment 2

[Nicolae Albu]

It seems that after the bug is reproduced, the problem tab "freezes" the history somehow that every time it reloads because of low memory, it goes to the same URL, even if I navigate to other pages after.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

I think I've seen this myself.

Comment 4

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

This sound suspiciously like bug 1044556 to me.