1718106 - Opening a Microsoft Support page adds a dummy navigation history item

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P3)

Description

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

1. Click https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-10-update-assistant-3550dfb2-a015-7765-12ea-fba2ac36fb3f
2. Check the history by right-clicking back button

Expected: Only one new item should be there, as on Chrome.
Actual: Two duplicated items are added

This also causes the back button stop working since clicking it somehow restores the last item very soon.

Comment 1

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

So the site uses pushState or some such without user interaction.

Comment 2

[Adam Vandolder [:avandolder]]

The back button intervention has been shipped with bug 1734181.

Comment 3

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

But my 2024-08-28 Nightly still shows duplicated items, can you check what's happening there?

Comment 4

[Adam Vandolder [:avandolder]]

Huh. Having tried opening the site in both new tab and from clicking the link a number of times, it appears it is still producing duplicate items in some cases, but not always. It seems user activations are being carried over between loads in cases where they shouldn't be.

Comment 6

[Timea Zsoldos [:tzsoldos], Desktop QA]

Reproduced on latest Nightly Firefox 134.0a1 on Ubuntu 22 and macOS 12, accessing in the same tab the following pages: eg. youtube → facebook → wikipedia → reddit → twitter or support.microsoft.com → drakowltest.com → aajtak.in, producing unexpected or duplicate entries in the history, it worse to mention that scrolling on the last aajtak.in page adds a lot of dummy aajtak entry to the back/forward button history.

Comment 7

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Reproduced on Android as well in the latest Nightly 134.0a1, on both Xiaomi Pad 5 (Android 13) and Google Pixel 9 (Android 14).

Comment 8

[Timea Zsoldos [:tzsoldos], Desktop QA]

Verified using latest Nightly Firefox 135.0a1 on Windows 10, macOS 12 and Ubuntu 22, works as expected if not using misbehavior websites like aajtak.in, sammobile.com, twitter.com.

Comment 9

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Verified as fixed also on Android on the latest Nightly Firefox 135.0a1 with Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (Android 14).

Comment 10

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

FWIW, this is fixed by bug 1924861.