1897670 - Firefox going back pages until new tab.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[moritzrossbacher]

Steps to reproduce:

Seems to happen quite randomly, often without any key input at all.

Actual results:

Firefox starts to go back my tabs page history until reaching the new tab menu. Changing tabs affects the new tab as well. Continues until restarting firefox.

Expected results:

Nothing, quite literally.

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Hello, thank you for the bug report!
Unfortunately I could not reproduce your issue. Would you be so kind as to answer a few questions so we can investigate this further?

• Can you provide any url/website where you’ve seen this issue happening? Is it intermittent?
• Does it 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
• Does it happen with latest nightly? Here is a link from where you can download it: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
• Does it happen when Firefox is in Troubleshoot Mode? Here’s a link on how to enable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode#w_how-to-start-firefox-in-troubleshoot-mode

Comment 3

[moritzrossbacher]

Attachment: temp.txt

Troubleshoot Information raw data.

Comment 4

[moritzrossbacher]

1. It seems to happen on ANY website that is not built into firefox.
2. Yes I tried with 2 profiles as well as a new one with only default settings (besides uBlock origin).
3. I will try this and give a further response, currently I am using my package managers package.
4. Yes, I added an attachment "temp.txt" containing the raw troubleshoot data.

Comment 5

[moritzrossbacher]

(In reply to moritzrossbacher from comment #4)

3. I will try this and give a further response, currently I am using my package managers package.
   Yes, it still occurs.
   How can I provide more information?

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Could you please test with a different keyboard, and eventually even a different keyboard layout? We suspect it may be a stuck key.

Which window manager are you using?

Comment 7

[moritzrossbacher]

I sadly do not have a different keyboard, but I'm quite certain it's not a stuck key.
I am using dwm with alpha patch, I can't for sure confirm it's not what causes this but other applications that feature "previous" keys don't seem to have this bug, I don't use them much tho.

Comment 8

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:niklas, could you have a look please?

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