298859 - The back-one-page arrow does not work while on the Newsweek page only

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim]

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

The back-one-page arrow does not work while on the Newsweek web page if using
Firefox - it does work fine while on other web pages.

The back-one-page arrow works fine while on the Newsweek web page if using
Internet Explorer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox
2.Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
3.Click on any Newsweek story > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8359695/site/newsweek/
4.Back-one-page arrow doesn't work
5.Click on itty-bitty black down arrow between arrows
6.Click on "Today's News From MSNBC - MSNBC.com - Mozilla Firefox" and you are
taken back to MSNBC as desired.
Actual Results:  
Non-functional arrow again

Expected Results:  
One should be taken back to MSNBC from the green back-one-page arrow and not
have to go the itty-bitty black down arrow and select MSNBC.com from the list of
visited sites.

This problem seems to have ocurred only recently - this month maybe.

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050620
Firefox/1.0+

Reporter, please try a Nightly build (http://www.mozilla.org/developer) and
report back your results with this updated version.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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