204366 - Browser loses track of previous position when going back to URL with anchor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204364

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Per Ångström]

If I have followed a URL with an anchor and I then follow a link and return back
again, Mozilla will lose track of where I was on the page - I will always end up
at the top of the page, having to reload the page or manually my previous position. 

If I had followed the same link from a non-anchored URL Mozilla would have
returned to my previous position. 

Seen in Mozilla Firebird/0.6-20030429 and Mozilla 1.4b-20030502 on Linux, and
Mozilla 1.4b-20030502 on Windows 98. I think this is a quite recent regression.
Netscape 7.02 doesn't have this annoying behaviour.

Instructions on how to reproduce the bug will be posted in a comment.

Comment 1

[Per Ångström]

How to reproduce:
1) Follow this link: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204366#c0
2) Scroll down as far as possible.
3) Now follow this link: <http://www.mozilla.org/> and go back to the previous
page (using the back button or equivalent).
4) Note where the browser returns to.

Expected result:
The browser should return exactly to where I was before following the link to
another page.

Actual result:
The browser returns to the top of the page.

The problem is 100 % reproducible.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204364 ***