144360 - The back and forward buttons are not working (always disabled)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 141290

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Derek Petersen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020513
BuildID:    2002051308

The back and forward buttons are always disabled. I reinstalled and it worked
for a while, then they went broken again :( :(

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Moz 1.0 RC2 on WinME
2. After a while you will notice the the back and forward buttons totally broke

Actual Results:  back and forward buttons broke

Expected Results:  they should not be

Comment 1

[Adrian Ulrich]

Derek:
Had you ever another build than RC2 installed on your PC?

Mozilla gets sometimes confused by Configurationfiles of older builds, try to
start mozilla with a new profile (mozilla.exe -profilemanager) and create a new
profile.. does that help?

Comment 2

[Derek Petersen]

This was actually on someone elses computer that I was using via VNC. But yet,
he did have Netscape 6.x installed at one point. However I went in and totally
deleted the C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla folder which holds the profiles
in WinMe. Then re-installed Mozilla and everything worked great. Then suddenly
the back and forward buttons stopped working again.

Comment 3

[Adrian Ulrich]

How long did it work after you deletet the profile data? Did it work until you
startet Netscape?

See also Bug 67312 , comment 1 & 2
Try to make a profile for Netscape 6 and a DIFFERENT profile for Mozilla..

Mozillas and NS6's profiles are incompatible...

Comment 4

[Derek Petersen]

Let me rephrase: I uninstalled Netscape. I uninstalled the existing Mozilla. I
deleted the C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla directory, removing ALL
profiles. I then proceded to install Mozilla 1.0 RC2. The back button worked for
a while, then stopped working.

********Netscape is not on the system.***************

**********No old versions of Mozilla are on the system***********

*********Mozilla 1.0 RC2 & Internet Exploiter are the *ONLY* browsers on the
system******

*I am fully aware that Netscape profiles are incompatiable with Mozilla profiles.*

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

-> session history

Comment 6

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Please click on Edit Menu --> Preferences. Click on History  under the browser
tab. What does the text field under "Session History" say. It should be a number
> 0. when you are stuck with a non-working back forward buttons, are you able to
navigate to previous pages using the Go menu? Are pages  added to the Go menu as
you visit them? Do you have a url in which the back and forward buttons were
totally broken?  Please respond to the above questions, as I can not proceed
without having these details. 

cc'ing jag. This is the third bug I have that simply says, the back forward
buttons don't work with a new installation or new profile.   Any clues?

Comment 7

[adnaan sikandar]

Hi,

I was having the same problem, the back and forward buttons were always
disabled. I resolved it by entering "50" in the session history field. Session
history field was orginally empty. It might be a good idea to set the session
history to 10 if the user deletes the original value by mistake.

Adnaan Sikandar 

Comment 8

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Do we really need session history to be configurable?

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141290 ***