185793 - Requesting right-click -> "This Frame" -> "Go back one page" menu option

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Sandor Vroemisse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I'd like to see a menu option "Go back one page" in the "This Frame" submenu
when right-clicking in a (i)frame. This, of course, should be accompanied by a
"Go forward one page" option.

Severity: request for new feature in R3 :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Maybe I misunderstood you, but why dont you simply right-click and choose Back
or forward in the menu?

Comment 2

[Sandor Vroemisse]

Because that might work on another frame than the one I want to go back. It
often does.

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

->History:session

Comment 4

[Charles Fenwick]

*** Bug 211820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Indulis Bernsteins]

Hi- I had entered this as a new bug & the developers suggested I move th
testcase here.  They pointed out the back/fwd buttons were doing what they
wanted them to- reversing the actions taken (i.e. going back in one frame, then
the other if that was the way I navigated there).  I still think a "Back in
frame" is a good idea on the "this frame" menu.

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a)
Gecko/20030703
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a)
Gecko/20030703

If I try to navigate just one frame in a 2-frame (split screen) page, then the
back/forward buttons seem to randomly apply to one frame, then the other.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

FOr an example, go to http://imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/CDISPLAY.HTM
select a camera in each frame, then select images in both frames until you end
up with a high-res photo in each.  I did this alternating between the frames
(that is, click in LH frame, click in RH frame).  Then try to navigate back in
just one of the frames back to the originally displayed page.  It isn't possible.

For example, click in the LH frame blank area between the title, then press the
browser "Back" button.  CLick in the LH frame again and press the Back button. 
The RH frame goes back not the LH frame.

Actual Results:  
The wrong frame goes back, and the navigation requests seem to randomly go to
one frame then the other.

Expected Results:  
Performed the navigation request on the frame that was under the cursor at the
time, or that had the "focus" (i.e. the user had clicked on it). 

Alternatively, offer a specific frame back/forward navigation option that is
sensitive to the "focussed" frame.


Either:
1) the browser needs to be aware of which frame the user wants the action to be
performed on (a "focus" on the frame, albeit invisible), or 
2) back/forward menu selections that are in the RH button menu popup should
apply to the frame that is currently under the cursor, or
3) the "this frame" submenu available from the RH button menu popup should have
a  "back/forward in this frame" menu item available, that applies to the frame
currently under the cursor

Thanks!

Indulis

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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