243855 - Back in tab with empty history should close tab and activate referer tab.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Are Årseth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040512 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MOOX)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040512 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MOOX)

You have opened a link in a new tab, browsed some links in the new tab, and then
pressed back untill the history of that tab is empty. What should happen when
you press back another time? Now nothing happens. But I submit that the logical
thing to happen is to close the current tab and activate the referer tab.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with page A in Tab 1
2. Open Link to page B in Tab 2
3. Browse page B in Tab 2, click some links
4. Press back untill you are back at Page B again.
-- Now the new feature
5. Pressing back another time closes Tab 2 and activates Tab 1, if tab 1 is
closed nothing happens.

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

There is another request for a new tab to inherit the history of its referer.
That contradicts this request. See bug 18808 for details.

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

(In reply to comment #1)
> There is another request for a new tab to inherit the history of its referer.
> That contradicts this request. See bug 18808 for details.

I think that we may have to implement this independent of Seamonkey. But I'm not
100% sure about this. Nevertheless, I prefer the approach in bug 18808.

Comment 3

[flock31070]

I also prefer 18808

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Closing the tab takes you back to the referrer in the popup/forced new window case, which is enough here. 18808 is interesting, but its not an either/or.