283880 - the back button does not control the frame, it controls the whole page

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[kit]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

When surfing inside of frames firefox is inconsitant with the handling of the
back button.  When I go to a new page inside of the frame then click the back
button, the frame stays in the same location, but I am shifted to the previous
page.  The main thing that makes this error so bizzare, is that it does not hold
true for all pages.

Pages this glitch occurs on:
http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/
http://kit.kitkorp.com/archives/2005_01.php

Pages this glitch does not occur on:
http://kit.kitkorp.com/archives/000241.php
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&format=guided

I posted this as reproducable because it is consistant on the pages that the
glitch occurs on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to one of the listed glitch pages
2. click on a link that is contained within the frames (and stays in the frame)
3. hit the back button (on the browser window, but also works with right click)
Actual Results:  
the site shifted back

Expected Results:  
The frame should have shifted back one page instead of the whole site

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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