266892 - No BACK or FORWARD buttons working when extensions page opened from the link in the Extension Manager

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Dorneanu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029 Firefox/1.0RC1

There is no back or forward button active when jumping to the extensions page
from  the Extension Manager. My mouse has back and forward buttons which are not
working. But I seem to be able to go back using Backspace key on keyboard. Also,
why Firefox opens extensions page in a new window when my browser is configured
to open all new links into new tabs and not new windows.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Extension Manager.
2. Press "Get More Extensions" link.
3. The extensions page on update.mozilla.org try to follow any link and then go
back to the main page. 
Actual Results:  
You will see that you can not go back or forward because the navigational
buttons do not become active.

Expected Results:  
work

Comment 1

[willy iven]

same problem over here


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029
Firefox/1.0RC1 (MOOX M3)


XP  SP2

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

WFM using
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041030
Firefox/1.0RC2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041028
Firefox/1.0RC1

I'm using the default theme. 

Comment 3

[Milen A. Radev]

WFM using

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029
Firefox/1.0RC1

(Windows XP SP2)

I'm using the "Luna Blue" theme.

Comment 4

[Asher]

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

Clicking the "Get More Extensions" link opens a new window, even though both
options in Advanced say to open new tabs instead of new windows...and because
it's a new window, the back/forward buttons are disabled.

It shouldn't be opening the window at all, and should be obeying preferences to
open in a tab...dunno if this is a known bug.

Comment 5

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

The issue of the Get More Extensions link spawning a new window is a totally
unrelated bug, bug 262575. The Tabbrowser Preferences extension can provide the
behaviour you seek for now.

As for the relevant part of comment #0, WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041030 Firefox/1.0RC2
(daihard: P4/SSE2)

Comment 6

[Paul Dorneanu]

I think this is happening only when there is not a clean install.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

This bug no longer exists, if it ever did - I suspect that the reporter was
experiencing something else, like a borken extension.