204923 - scrollbar positioned incorrectly on page reload

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201815

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Loren Rosen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

In the circumstances to be described, the scrollbar ends up at top of the scroll
area, but the browser window is scrolled down (not displaying the top of the page).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit news.yahoo.com
2. scroll down a bit, and click on a link to a news story
3. use back button to return to news.yahoo.com

Actual Results:  
browser window properly redisplayed and scrolled into the same position it was
in before link was clicked, but scroll bar is at the top

Expected Results:  
scrollbar position corresponding to viewport position on browser page

Comment 1

[Loren Rosen]

Note also that as soon as you scroll the reloaded page the scrollbar is
redisplayed in the correct place.

Comment 2

[wacheo]

wfm linux build 2003050714 (1.4b).

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201815 ***