266610 - forward/back buttons fail to function, they remain disabled at all times

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Aaron van de Ven]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0

As in any browser, once a site, or multiple sites have been visited, the 
forward and back buttons will go back or jump to the visited sites 
respectively. These buttons are constantly disabled, thus their function is nil

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute Firefox Browser
2. Buttons are disabled; visit 2-5 websites, buttons remain disabled

Actual Results:  
Forward/Back buttons fail to function, they remain disabled

Expected Results:  
Buttons should operate as designated, forward/back between sites

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Please retest in safe mode, this is, as like the other bugs you reported, WFM,
RC1, WinXP

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Accessibility = usability by persons with disabilities (www.mozilla.org/access)

Comment 3

[Gary van der Merwe]

Reporter: What is your Firefox Agent String. You entered this bug through IE, so
you are going to have to provide us with that seperatly.

You can do this by clicking on Help-> About, then highlight the bottom line of
text, and copy and paste it into a comment on this bug. It should look somthing
like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041030
Firefox/1.0RC2

You may be experencing Bug 237866. Without your Firefox AgentID I'm not able to
tell if you are using a version before that bug was fixed.

You can also try download a newer version from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-0.11/ and see if
you still experence the problem

Comment 4

[Aaron van de Ven]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 
Firefox/1.0RC1

Comment 5

[Aaron van de Ven]

upgrading from both the PRrc, and RC1, to the nightly build "Mozilla/5.0 
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041101 Firefox/1.0RC2" 
still generates all the posted errors.

Comment 6

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

just to be clear, you are *not* using tabs, ie. you left-click the links?
Do you have any extensions installed?

Comment 7

[Aaron van de Ven]

If the browser is tabber, or isn't, buttons don't work. Also, no extensions are
installed. Now using the PRrc version, anything above seems to have the same
problems

Comment 8

[Christopher Mitchell]

I am having the exact same problem, however I am having it on OSX and have had it since the 1.0 
release.  Same with the nightly builds.  It is like FireFox is never updating the back/forward buttons, 
and the history remains blank.  Will start a new bug # for the OSX version. 

Comment 9

[Jonathan Clapsaddle]

This happened to me after upgrading to version 1.06. Since then, back-grading to
older versions doesn't help - "back/forward" are permanently disabled!

Another "symptom" that emerged along with this one - the URL won't get updated
as I click on a link.. it'll statically list the last manual entry of a URL, not
the actual page currently shown - e.g. if I typed in "www.mozilla.org", then
surfed on from there, the url will still list the mozilla URL. 

Jonathan Clapsaddle

Comment 10

[apainttown]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050824 Firefox/1.6a1
ID:2005082407

my back - forward  - refresh - stop - home icons are greyed out and inoperative

i have to navigate via sidebar bookmarks and the "go" button

Comment 11

[Andrew Liverod]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Happens when a link is clicked on in Thunderbird.
Happens with the 'open in new window' item in the right click context menu.

If a page is opened using either of these method and then a further link is clicked on in the current page then:

The back button is not enabled (stays ghosted and does not turn green).
The history drop down (between the 'back' and 'forward' history arrows) remains ghosted and does not turn green.
The 'Ctrl+c' history menu is updated.

So the hisory is updated but the navigation icons are not enabled. Strange.

Comment 12

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

These problems should be corrected by one or more of the steps listed under:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox

Comment 13

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (away Aug 5-12, Aug 19-21)]

Is this still an issue with current version?

Comment 14

[Kevin Brosnan]

No response - Incomplete