250684 - Sometimes, when the "back" button is pressed, the browser returns to the begining of the previous page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47350

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Arménio Pinto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

When the "back" button (or ALT+LEFT) is pressed, I expect Mozilla to return to
to the previous web page, and in the privious position in the web page. But
sometimes this doesn't work: the previous web page is diplayed but from the
begining.

This is very annoying, specially when your're reading a long page, with links in
the middle. You click in a link, read the new web page, hit "back" and expect to
continue reading the previous page from the previous position.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open some web page.
2. Open another web page.
3. Hit the "back" button.
Actual Results:  
The previous web page is displayed but in the begining.

Expected Results:  
Return to the previous position in the previous page.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

There are a severak known circumstances causing this. Since no specific URL is
mentioned, resolving as dup of bug 47350

Other possible candidates: bug 36539, bug 210992, bug 238195, bug 217120

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