288196 - Back Button stops working sometimes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Gstoettenmayr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

i have no further details for this bug, because i have no clue what exactly
causes this problem.

only thing that i have noticed as sidekick of this bug is that at the same time
when the back button stops working sometimes the text in the adress bar is
disappearing also (not always though).

only extra thing to mention is probably that this only happened to me when i had
more then one tab open (but cant say if it would happen also with only one tab).

sorry for the lack of more useful information 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Perhaps side effects of this bug, look at the dependency list:
Bug 203960 Make bookmark groups conditionally replace existing tabs instead of
appending


This shouldn´t happen with the non-default setting of
Edit->Preferences->Navigator->TabbedBrowsing
When opening a Bookmark Group: 
[x] add tabs
[ ] replace existing tabs

With the default setting of 'Replace' going Back can´t work in all cases, it
can´t go back to a dynamically generated page, the page will be newly generated,
and sometimes that is impossible.

The previous default of adding tabgroups didn´t need going back, as there was
nothing replaced, and another advantage was that you could load multiple short
grouips.

Can you try the setting above and report, if that solves your problem?

Comment 2

[Thomas Gstoettenmayr]

i never used the default("replace") setting, always use/used the "add" setting.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

can you try a trunk build (1.8b, or suite 1.0a should be available soon)?
are there any errors in the JS Console when this happens?

Comment 4

[Thomas Gstoettenmayr]

(In reply to comment #3)
> can you try a trunk build (1.8b, or suite 1.0a should be available soon)?
> are there any errors in the JS Console when this happens?

where is the js(javascript?) console in mozilla 1.7.6?

i am using suns java 1.5.0.2

is it possible that any of the extensions i use (adblock, googlebar, chromedit)
causes the problem? or the orbit 3+1 theme?

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

> is it possible that any of the extensions i use (adblock, googlebar, chromedit)
> causes the problem? or the orbit 3+1 theme?

it's very possible.  Please try without them (theme would be my first guess).

js console is in tools->web development->js console

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Thomas Gstoettenmayr]

this bug is still there, even in Mozilla 1.7.12.
only happens with tabbed browsing and more than one tab open.
not only back button stops working, the adress bar also doesnt show the correct adress when switching tabs (it always shows the same adress or blank).

Comment 9

[Benoît]

This sounds a lot like bug 157145.

Comment 10

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

Is this still an issue in recent versions of SeaMonkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/)?

Comment 11

[Thomas Gstoettenmayr]

It is still there, even in Seamonkey 1.1.9
Happens rarely anyways, i just close Seamonkey and restart it when it happens, i got used to this issue over the years :)

Comment 12

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

SeaMonkey 1.1 is at end-of-life since March 1. Unless this bug can be reproduced on Sm 2.0.4 or later, it should be closed WONTFIX or WORKSFORME.

Comment 13

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Marking WFM. Please only reopen if you can reproduce the problem with SeaMonkey 2.0 or later, SeaMonkey 1.1 is no longer supported.