226724 - Link focus lost when using back button

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36539

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Matt Lavin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Navigating links in the browser with the keyboard is hard because the back
button does not restore the previous focus position in the page.  Quickly
navigating through lists would be possible if this was the case.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to www.google.com
2. Press 'Tab' until the 'Advertise with Us' link has focus
3. Press 'Enter' to visit the link
4. Press 'Alt + <-' to go back


Actual Results:  
The 'Advertise with Us' link does not have focus

Expected Results:  
The 'Advertise with Us' link should have focus

I have only tested this on Firebird 0.7 for Win32 and Epiphany 1.0 on Linux and
neither one works

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36539 ***