240511 - option to disable javascript focus() in onload script when travelling through history

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Marc Bejarano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

it can be quite annoying when you click a link mid-way down a long web page,
decide you want to go back to the long page, hit the back button, and find
yourself scrolled back to the top of the page.

this is exactly what can happen with the given URL.  see bug 236971 for the
discussion of why.  apparently mozilla is trying to protect the user by
scrolling the page to the form control that was javascript focus()'d during onload.

it would be great if there were a pref that would turn this behavior off when
travelling through the user's history.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not a session history issue.  This would need to happen in the DOM code (which
can ask the docshell what sort of load is being done).

For what it's worth, I think this is an excellent idea....  jst?  Thoughts?

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

*** Bug 243129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Marc Bejarano]

i'm wondering if perhaps this is really a design flaw (ie: bug) instead of a
feature request.  should the javascript onload stuff even be relevant when you
go back to a page?  is that really a page "load"?

Comment 4

[Dan]

(In reply to comment #3)
> i'm wondering if perhaps this is really a design flaw (ie: bug) instead of a
> feature request.  should the javascript onload stuff even be relevant when you
> go back to a page?  is that really a page "load"?

Would fastback (ref Bug 274784) indirectly fix this bug once it is enabled by
default, as it would not fire the onload event for history traversal?

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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