241728 - Back button should be more specific to a page (not just take to the start of the page)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47350

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Rupendra Dhillon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

The back button should take the user to the location in the previous page where
the user clicked the link to get to the new page and not just to the start of
the previous page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

indeed it should. and in fact it does for me.

Can you give some URLs where you see this bug happening?

Comment 2

[Rupendra Dhillon]

Actually the only ones on which I have seen this happen are the query result
pages which we can get from the Bugzilla query webpage
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi. When I click on any link on this page,
even if that link is at the bottom of this page and after that I click the back
button, I am always taken to the very top of the page containing the results (no
matter where the link I clicked might be). Maybe this page containing the
results might be handled somewhat differently but I am pretty sure that when I
hit the back button the cgi script is not run again (because it takes some time)
so there should not be any reason related to the execution of script over here.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

ah, bugzilla result lists... those are strange beasts... they are not normal
html pages, as they are sent as multipart/x-mixed-replace (if the browser
supports it)

might be a duplicate of bug 47350

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As a matter of fact, yes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47350 ***