1837046 - When using the BACK button, I'm taken to a different site than the one I select

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[mark.doerr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0

Steps to reproduce:

Navigate to various pages within a tab.
Click and hold the BACK button to bring up a list of past pages visited.
Select a page further back than the last one.

Actual results:

I was taken to a different page than the one I selected, and the one I selected was removed from the BACK list.

Expected results:

I expected to be taken to the page I selected, and not lose that page from the BACK history list.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Layout: Form Controls' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[David Shin[:dshin]]

Hi - thanks for filing. Right now, I can't seem to reproduce this on Windows & Linux. Could you elaborate on the behaviour you're seeing?

• Does it happen with specific websites?
• Does it happen with a fresh profile?

(Also, Form Controls is definitely not the right place - For now, Toolbars seems the most correct)

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Waiting for steps to reproduce or more detail from the reporter before setting priority / severity.

Comment 4

[mark.doerr]

Hi,

To answer your questions:

1. Does it happen with specific websites? - No. It happens across any websites I've visited.
2. Does it happen with a fresh profile? No. After creating a new profile, it works as expected.

Mark

Comment 5

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Thanks, Mark!

Another question for you to help us track this down - does it occur while in troubleshooting mode?

Comment 6

[mark.doerr]

Mike,

Yes. it does occur in Troubleshooting mode.

Mark

Comment 7

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Hi Mark, could you share the modified preferences when the issue occur? You can find them in about:support page. Thanks!

Comment 8

[mark.doerr]

Attachment: Preferences

Edgar,

Here they are:

Comment 9

[mark.doerr]

Edgar,

Added as an attachment.

Comment 10

[Sean Feng [:sefeng]]

Edgar, do you mind check the attached file?

Comment 11

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

I didn't see any obvious thing in attached file. :(

Comment 12

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello! I have tried to reproduce the issue with firefox 118.0a1(2023-08-17) on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04, unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce the issue on my end. Could you please answer the following questions in order to further investigate this isssue.

1. Does this issue happen with a new profile? Here is a link on how to create one: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
2. Does this issue happen in the latest nightly? Here is a link from where you can download it: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
3. Do you have any addons installed? If yes could you please list them?

Comment 13

[mark.doerr]

Hi,

I'm using macOS so I don't know whether this is a bug on Windows or Ubuntu. I guess it's good that you couldn't find it on either of those platforms.

1. I mentioned earlier that this issues did not happen when I created a new profile.
2. No, I use the FF Dev edition (aurora channel) version of the browser.
3. The add-ons I had installed and active at the time of the report were included in the Prefs file. Here's part of that:
   "addons": [
   {
   "name": "1Password – Password Manager",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "2.11.0",
   },
   {
   "name": "Add-ons Search Detection",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "2.0.0",
   },
   {
   "name": "Amazon.com",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "1.6",
   },
   {
   "name": "Bing",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "1.5",
   },
   {
   "name": "DuckDuckGo",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "1.4",
   },
   {
   "name": "eBay",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "1.4",
   },
   {
   "name": "Facebook Container",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "2.3.9",
   },
   {
   "name": "FantasyPros: Win your Fantasy League",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "11.1.2",
   },
   {
   "name": "Google",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "1.4",
   },
   {
   "name": "Google Analytics Debugger",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "2.8.2",
   },
   {
   "name": "Privacy Badger",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "2023.6.23",
   },
   {
   "name": "To Google Translate",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "4.2.0",
   },
   {
   "name": "uBlock Origin",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "1.50.0",
   },
   {
   "name": "User-Agent Switcher and Manager",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "0.5.0",
   },
   {
   "name": "Web Developer",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "2.0.5",
   },
   {
   "name": "Wikipedia (en)",
   "type": "extension",
   "version": "1.3",
   }

Comment 14

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

Not able to reproduce this with Nightly Fx 135.
We seemed to stuck to make actions. If this is still valid to you, please feel free to reopen. Any new information or steps to reproduce would help us make actions more likely.