300996 - back button does not provide access to "good" version of page with error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74349

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Brennan Vincent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

When reloading a page, if an error occurred on that page the back button is
disabled, not letting the user return to the cached "good" version of page

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page on a web server you control
2. Kill the server
3. Reload the page

Actual Results:  
Back button is either grayed out or provides access to the page prior to the
reloaded page

Expected Results:  
Back button provides access to previously cached version of reloaded page.

Comment 1

[Brennan Vincent]

Sorry if I did anything wrong, this is my first time ever reporting a bug.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Confirmed with
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007082004 Minefield/3.0a8pre
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070820 BonEcho/2.0.0.7pre

The Back button goes back in history. Reload means “reload”.
Not sure if anything can be done about that.

Comment 3

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

Well, at timeout, failed connection, page load error etc alerts, you could add an option to load page from disk cache, if present.