1636139 - annoying sites that stop you from going back

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Luker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

i have open a site(this is not care fake or original) and i try to download a file (i search for download a file) but site redirect me into pages and when i try to to back site never allow me to back first place and site repeatedly redirect me into fake pages and only way to back use history but issue won't fix, also i forgot the site name. any one know please add here .

Actual results:

one of the most annoying things on the internet is websites that hijack your browser. Unfortunately, this isn’t something exclusive to shady websites. You’ve probably run across a legitimate website that doesn’t let you go to the previous page when you click the Back button.

You search for something on Google, bing, etc and select a result, but you realize it’s not what you were looking for. When you click the Back button to leave the website it simply refreshes the page or refuses to go back. The only way to leave the page is to mash the Back button repeatedly or open your History and select the previous page.

Expected results:

please combating these “history manipulation” tactics. That’s how these websites prevent you from leaving with the Back button. They manipulate your browsing history so going “Back” doesn’t go where you expect.

Mark entries to be skipped on back for history manipulation intervention.

Entries that are added to the back/forward list without the user's intention
are marked to be skipped on subsequent back button invocations.
This CL only adds the bit and subsequent CLs will add metrics and the intervention
logic based on this bit.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity is normal and has not been changed, and this bug's priority is -- (none,) indicating it has has not been previously triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to -- (default, untriaged.)

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Can you provide a URL for one of these sites please?

Comment 4

[Tim Spurway [:tspurway]]

S1 or S2 bugs need an assignee - could you find someone for this bug?

Comment 5

[Luker]

(In reply to Mike Taylor [:miketaylr] from comment #3)

Can you provide a URL for one of these sites please?

no im not remmber that site but i saw

Comment 6

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

As is, this report is not actionable. If you can remember (or find a new) URL that displays the behavior, please file a new bug. Thanks!

Comment 7

[Luker]

the

Comment 8

[Luker]

i found a web do this annoy.
first go to https://www.shahvani.com then click a random link the site have, you can see the one windows open and the new page open in new window but the original page your on open other site named stack patch(xapi.juicyads.com) that manipulate window and dont let you back if your try back button.
please make sure your explore the https://www.shahvani.com to see tack patch(xapi.juicyads.com) and fix the manipulation, also this is not first site do this who know in wild world how much web site do this manipulation?

Comment 9

[Luker]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:firefox esr 68 and firefox esr 78 are affected too!

Comment 10

[Luker]

hi i found a web site that do abuse
-Go to: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/air-india-passenger-tests-coronavirus-positive-1682333-2020-05-27

-Scroll to the bottom of the page, and to the top again. And stay there for a few seconds (3 to 4 seconds would be enough)

-Press the back button, observe that it take more than a single press to go back and sometimes it just refuses to go back and sometimes it takes several clicks before it works.

Comment 11

[Neha Kochar [:neha]]

I tried with the steps in comment 10 and could not reproduce. I'm closing this as WFM. Please re-open if this is still happening for you.

Comment 12

[Luker]

(In reply to Neha Kochar [:neha] from comment #11)

I tried with the steps in comment 10 and could not reproduce. I'm closing this as WFM. Please re-open if this is still happening for you.

try comment 8

Comment 13

[Luker]

i tried comment 8 and every time return same result in every ff versions.

Comment 14

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

This seems related to/block bug 1645211. Let's revisit this after that bug.

Comment 15

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug has a release status flag that shows some version of Firefox is affected, thus it will be considered confirmed.

Comment 16

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

This looks fixed to me on the Latest Nightly build 132.0a1 across platforms (Windows 11, macOS 13 and Ubuntu 22.04) using the websites from comment 8 and comment 10 now that bug 1734181 was fixed (re-enabling browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction). I will go ahead and close this bug.

Comment 17

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Verified as fixed on Android, on the latest Nightly 132.0a1 from 16.09.2024 using Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (Android 14).