288641 - Forgets browsing history for the active tab page when an error page is shown as a result of attempting to navigate to another resource.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 157004

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[tommyjb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

If you set error pages to show (browser.xul.error_pages.enabled = true) and an
error page displays on a tab page, the history of that tab page, if any exists,
is lost.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to true.
2. Load a page that works (for example, http://google.com/).
3. Using the same tab page, try to load a page that will not work (for exampole,
http://asdfsadfdsafsfa.com/).

Actual Results:  
Notice that you cannot click the 'back' button to return to the last page that
you were at (though you *can* in the same situation with Internet Explorer).

Expected Results:  
It should've let me click the 'back' button to return to http://google.com/.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157004 ***

Comment 2

[Jeremy Arnold]

Confirm backbutton disabled. 
I'm assuming this is an incomplete feature because it isn't in the standard
"user accessable" preferances.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050401
Firefox/1.0+
It works as expected in the nightly builds.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

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