219134 - javascript location.replace seems to add to history and not replace current entry

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Martin Walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

see summary

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

moving to Browser-> History: Session

Comment 2

[Bob Firth]

forgot that firebird has it's own history.

moving to Firebird -> History.
sorry for bugspam.

Comment 3

[Bob Firth]

marking as INVALID

Steps to not Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.mozilla.org
2. in URL bar type:
   javascript:void(document.location.replace("http://bugzilla.mozilla.org"))
3a. if you did this in a fresh window the back button will be disabled
3b. if you did this in the URL bar of (e.g.) this bug, then clicking back will
bring you back to this bug (not to mozilla.org).

I think it makes a lot of sense to store the page in global history, it is a
record of all of the pages you have visited. IE does this too.

Comment 4

[Martin Walker]

as it stands in firebird following a replace go(-1) will goto to the replaced
page and not the previous page in the history. 

The defintion of replace in the javascript reference manual states:
 
"does not generate a new entry in the history object"
 
I have code that works fine in internet explorer 6 based on this.
 
it allows you to navigate to a new page whilst allowing a javascript go(-1) to
continue to take you back to a set location.
 

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Moving to Browser -> History: Session
This is a backend issue, not a frontend issue.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No testcase, empty steps to reproduce, no clear explanation of what the bug is.
 I'm sorry but there's nothing that can be done with this bug report, so marking
invalid.  Please feel free to reopen after reading
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html and providing the
minimal information needed to fix this bug (which would be a way for someone
other than the reporter to reproduce it).