Closed Bug 1883429 Opened 1 year ago Closed 1 year ago

Two finger swipe back or forward doesn't work on Google search and other websites

Categories

(Core :: Panning and Zooming, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Panning and Zooming
Version:
Firefox 123
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: jochenjmbo, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Steps to reproduce:

Using Google search, scroll down until new search results load. Then try to use the two-finger swipe to the right to load the previous page.

Actual results:

Swiping back or forward with the track-pad does not work anymore. The blue arrow does not appear.

Selecting any text on the page seems to 'reset' the gestures and swiping back or forward works once more.

Expected results:

The previous page should load.

This problem is not present on other browsers like Safari or Chrome.

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

Component: Untriaged → Panning and Zooming
Product: Firefox → Core

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Flags: needinfo?(botond)

I have been unable to reproduce this. Do you have a screen recording of this happening?

Is it only the swiping gesture that does not work, or do the back and forward buttons also not work?

Flags: needinfo?(botond) → needinfo?(jochen)

(In reply to Dan Robertson (:dlrobertson) from comment #3)

I have been unable to reproduce this. Do you have a screen recording of this happening?

Is it only the swiping gesture that does not work, or do the back and forward buttons also not work?

I've recorded a video of the problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_CoDT4BZo

Flags: needinfo?(jochen)

Thanks! That is very helpful!

Steps to Repro

The exact STR for me are as follows:

  1. Ensure you have something in your history.
  2. Search a generic term in google search, such that there will be more results than can fit in one page.
  3. Scroll down until more content is loaded
  4. Immediately attempt to perform a swipe-to-nav gesture

Note that if I wait a couple seconds, I'm able to perform a swipe-to-nav gesture again. To see the issue, you need to perform the swipe-to-nav gesture relatively quickly after more results are loaded.

Other notes

I tested on the release channel and I can indeed reproduce the issue on the release build. I can also reproduce this with mozregression --launch <today's date>, but I have not been able to reproduce this with my local "daily driver" nightly version. There must be some preference that I've set, that hides this issue.

Severity: -- → S3
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [apz-needsdiagnosis]

mccr8 pointed me out that Google has disabled "continuous scroll" search results, thus we are no longer able to diagnose what was going on there. Removing apz-needsdiagnosis and resolving as INCOMPLETE since whatever the google did, theoretically there should exist other sites where swipe-to-navigation doesn't work for the same underlying cause.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 year ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Whiteboard: [apz-needsdiagnosis]
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