1714850 - Show more than 15 items in the back/fwd button menus and use a scrollbar for them

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[sgl4kn]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

Browse a big gallery with 200+ images (where every new image creates a new history entry)
Right click on the back button

Actual results:

Only 15 history back entries are shown
Even worse: after going back 15 entries, one can only go back 7 entries additionally

Expected results:

Right click menu on the back button should show the same scrollbar as is shown when clicking on Menu > History

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Navigation' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Browsers have max 50 entries in the session history.
But perhaps the menu UI could be a bit different.

Comment 3

[sgl4kn]

Thx for the info, I increased my "browser.sessionhistory.max_entries" and realized meanwhile that the following settings are all obsolete:

about:config

• browser.sessionstore.max_serialize_back = 10
• browser.sessionstore.max_serialize_forward = -1

omni.ja\chrome\browser\content\browser\browser.js

• const MAX_HISTORY_MENU_ITEMS = 15;

Comment 4

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

HI sgl4kn,
Thanks for the report. Is pinterest/flickr a good example for testing this on my end?
Best,
Clara

Comment 5

[sgl4kn]

Hi Clara,

indeed, test links.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bulke41/51260992331/in/explore-2021-06-22/
https://unsplash.com/s/photos/gallery

For the second one, you can directly click on an image and then hit the "next image" button several times to create the history entries, without advertising in between ;)

Greetz

Comment 6

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

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Comment 7

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

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Comment 8

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Thanks, sgl4kn I can reproduce in latest build as well. (91.0a1 (2021-06-23) (64-bit), and also release 89.0 and beta 90.0b11 (64-bit) buids.
Suggested severity: s3, snce user can access the full history list through Menu > History
Updating flags accordingly and setting component.
Best,
Clara

Comment 9

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

This is a Firefox UI thing, not some core session history issue.