267583 - On pressing back button, mozilla doesnt autoscroll to position where you were in the that page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Tahir Azhar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

This is more of a feature request. Or maybe a bug? Sorry if its not.
In mozilla if you are browsing a long page(or any page) and you are in the
middle of it, you click a link to go to some next page and then click back. It
goes back to the long page but takes you to the top instead of autoscrolling you
to your previous position in the centre of the page(or whereever you were).

This is the default behaviour in other browsers like IE. Its a pain sometimes to
browse it mozilla because of this as you have to rescroll everytime after doing
back to whereever you were reading.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a long webpage. Any blog etc.
2. Scroll to the middle.
3. Now click a link you see on the page to take you somewhere else.
4. Now press back to go back to the blog.
5. It takes you to the top of the page rather then where you were reading before.

Actual Results:  
It takes you to the top of the page rather then where you were reading before.

Expected Results:  
It should remember where you were atlest for 1 item back in history the position
and autoscroll the page for you.

Comment 1

[Tahir Azhar]

Ok sorry now its working on all sites where i try! and i dont have the link
where it wasnt working. please close.

Comment 2

[Markus Fischer]

It seems that this sometimes work and sometimes it doesn't.

For example: I browser the todays bugzilla list with
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&changedin=1&votes=&chfield=%5BBug+creation%5D&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&product=Browser&product=MailNews&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time

When I clicked on your bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267583
and then went back, I always started at the top of the page.

I expirienced this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b and I'm also sure it works most of
the time.