269439 - Back button sometimes just leaves me on the current page

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Spoonauer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

On sites like news.cnet.com, I have found that when I navigate a few pages into
some stories, sometimes when I click the Back button, I'm just left on the
current page.

I then have to click on the drop-down next to the Back button to be able to
navigate back to a previous page.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ross Shannon]

Michael, have you clicked any links on the page that jump up or down the page,
open popups or something similar? Sometimes links like these will append a #
symbol onto the end of the URL, which also gets an entry in the Back history.
Please add a link to a specific page where this happened.

Comment 2

[Michael Spoonauer]

I've included a URL that currently exhibits the behavior I described.  If you
can, go to http://news.com.com/, click on the link "Microsoft updates search
site" right above "Most Popular Headlines" towards the bottom of the page, go to
the bottom of the story page, click on comments, navigate through a few of them,
and then try to start navigating back one page at a time.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

This works fine on trunk, but not branch. So this is probably already fixed.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

Please disregard my comment, wrong bug. 

Comment 5

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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