254528 - back goes to top of page instead of where link was

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217120

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Jon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040802 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040802 Firefox/0.9.1

If the BODY tag is closed immediately after the close of a SCRIPT tag where the
script was loaded from an external file, when you browse back to that page using
the back button the browser goes to the top of the page instead of where the
link is. Inserting even a single character between </script> and </body> causes
this not to happen.

http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~jadevree/broken.html - example of a broken page
http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~jadevree/working.html - one with a single space between
the tags.

Disabling javascript completely causes the problem not to occur.
This bug was brought to my attention by someone complaining about this happening
on ebay.com. Like this page:
http://computers.listings.ebay.com/Laptops_W0QQfromZR4QQsacategoryZ51148QQsocmdZListingItemList

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to 
http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~jadevree/broken.html
2. Scroll down
3. Click the link
4. Hit back

Actual Results:  
Browser returned to broken.html but at the top of the page

Expected Results:  
Browser returns to the location of the link in broken.html (in this case the
bottom) See http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~jadevree/working.html for the normal behavior.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme with a current trunk SeaMonkey linux build.  Is this a problem on
firefox trunk, or just on branch?

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

WFM with Firefox trunk 20040804 PC/WinXP

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

I see this problem with rv:1.8a2 Gecko/20040702, maybe the patch from bug 217120
fixed this for the newer builds?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Very possible, yes.

Comment 5

[Jon]

This was happening to me on Firefox
0.9.3 Linux Debian package
0.9.3 Linux Official package
0.9.3 Windows Official package

But not the latest nightly for Linux, so I guess it is fixed.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217120 ***