272026 - Reloading twice in rapid succession (using F5 or Ctrl+R) should act like "Reload" then "Home" (take user to top of page)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Steve England [:stevee]]

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

In IE pressing f5 f5 (ie: f5 twice) reloads the page and moves focus to the top
of the page. In FireFox, f5 f5 reloads the page, but focus remains at the scroll
bar position that was present when f5 was pressed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Scroll to the bottom of this page
2. Hit f5 f5 (ie: f5 twice in quick succession)

Actual Results:  
Firefox refreshes the page, and moves focus to the bottom of the page (where it
was when f5 f5 was pressed)

Expected Results:  
Firefox should refresh the page, and move focus to the top of the page (as in
the vertical scrollbar should be at the top)

This is how IE works. It would be nice if this was also how Firefox works.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 272027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I'm not even sure that it is a feature in IE, rather than a bug. What is this
used for? How is it beneficial? Either way, it's an RFE, and not a bug. Very
likely to   be WONTFIXED as I can't see how it enhances anything.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm not even sure that it is a feature in IE, rather than a bug. What is this
> used for? How is it beneficial? Either way, it's an RFE, and not a bug. Very
> likely to   be WONTFIXED as I can't see how it enhances anything.

It's not a bug of IE, it's a feature. Anyone who uses the kb to navigate the web
uses it frequently, especially on forums where refreshing and moving to the top
of the page is the most efficient way of reading said forum.

It's an enhancement because many users coming from IE expect such behaviour, and
adding such behaviour to firefox won't break or complicate anything; it will
only make firefox that little bit better, and everything counts right?

by all means mark as WONTFIX, but adding this functionality can only be a good
thing.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It's not a bug of IE, it's a feature. Anyone who uses the kb to navigate the web
> uses it frequently, especially on forums where refreshing and moving to the top
> of the page is the most efficient way of reading said forum.

Can you not use the Home key to do just that? I don't know whether it's
necessary to add some obscure feature that I've never heard of when there's
already a key that does it just perfectly. This just doesn't seem very intuitive
to me.

> It's an enhancement because many users coming from IE expect such behaviour, and
> adding such behaviour to firefox won't break or complicate anything; it will
> only make firefox that little bit better, and everything counts right?

Actually, it will complicate things. When users reload twice and see unexpected
behavior they've never seen before, they're going to think that it's a bug and
file it.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The blocking flag is for bugs that might actually block a release. An
unconfirmed request for an enhancement with dubious value is *not* going to
block a release.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Steve, can you resolve this by setting a new or whatever ?

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Note that it's not necessary to confirm bugs, simply commenting is enough to
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