211242 - going from page to specific message and back to page it goes back to the top of the page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215405

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Judy Ranelli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

boatertalk is a message board.  in IE if I am a third of the way down the main
page and I click on a message to read it, then hit 'back' to go to the main page
again, it stays where I was reading.  Mozilla goes back to the top of the page,
and then I have to manually scroll down and find where I was.  It's confusing
and so for the time being I'm using Mozilla's email but IE for browser.  I'd
like to be rid of IE totally!  Can you fix this?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to www.boatertalk.com
2.Scroll down half the page and click on a message.
3.click 'back' to go back to the main page.

Actual Results:  
I was back at the top of the page.

Expected Results:  
It should have gone back to the section of the page I was reading.

Comment 1

[Nick Hansen]

I come up with the same problem (WinXP/Firebird 0.6) on pretty much any
dynamically generated page, though hopping between static pages does not produce
the problem.  Red herring or helpful clue - you make the call.

Still, it would be nice to see this behave in a more IE-oriented way.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->Docshell maybe?

Comment 3

[Steven Ostrowski]

Is there any activity on this bug? It's very annoying when reading forums,
looking through auctions, etc. It still exists in 1.7RC3.

I find that it doesn't happen every time, but probably about half the time. I
haven't been able to reproduce it 100%.

Comment 4

[Erik Wehr]

(In reply to comment #0)
Same problem. FireFox 1.0PR and RC on Windows 2000 SP4. Forums, eBay, and even
FireFox's Extensions pages. Click on a link, hit the back button, you're back at
the top. Hit refresh, same thing, back at the top.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Could someone do an HTTP log of the affected page's load following the instructions at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html and attach it to this bug 
using https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=211242&action=enter ?

Comment 6

[Steven Ostrowski]

I tried to go through about 100 links with 1.7.5 and couldn't reproduce the
problem. Maybe it's fixed now in 1.7.5?

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well, if the problem is gone, the bug should probably be marked "worksforme"....

Comment 8

[Pavel Penaz]

I still see this bug on trunk (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050115 Firefox/1.0+)

1. Visit this link http://www.boatertalk.com/forum/BoaterTalk
2. Scroll down the page
3. Click on any thread and press back.
4. You'll end up at the top of the original page.

Comment 9

[Pavel Penaz]

Attachment: HTTP log (zipped)

as requested.. Hope I've done it right.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The relevant header from that log is:

  Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215405 ***