189824 - Mozilla should save DOM tree state for history

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 38486

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Houwing]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Currently Mozilla remembers form values when hitting back and forward in the
browser. DOM stae isn't remembered though. So if the website had altered a
certain table row to be hidden programmatically, it will be visible when you hit
back.

I have found no way around this yet. It's my opinion that Mozilla should save
the status of all the objects in the DOM tree.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

i think it's the same as bug 38486, although that one is for performance
reasons, not for restoring forms.

Comment 2

[Jesse Houwing]

It's the same alright... coudn't find it before :) BTW, this sin't all about
forms. Many DHTML pages get screwed up completely when you hit back, because
they rely on form data to show certain stuff, or just show a whole bunch of
stuff you had just closed 2 minutes before.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38486 ***