294652 - [for local files] links disabled when a link is clicked and followed by back button

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Victor Trevino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I am using R statistical software (http://www.r-project.org/index.html). They
have a help system based on html pages. They include an "applet" to search
inside their help "index" system and the result of the "submit" page is a list
of clickeable links. The url for each link points to a local file in the form
href="../../dir/file.html" where the result of your query is found. From this
link list, after you use a link the next page/file is loaded perfectly; however,
is you use the "back" button, the links appears now disabled. 

It is very annoying becase you have to do the search again or open the links in
different tab/window.

I hope you can help.

Thanks


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search in the help system using R statistical software. Type
"help.start()<enter>", click "search...". Type "knn" (for instance). Click Search.
2. Click any link
3. Press back button

Actual Results:  
The links appears disabled

Expected Results:  
The links should appear enabled as in the original page.

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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