304083 - middle click on back doesn't use bfcache

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271851

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ivan Ičin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050807 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050807 Firefox/1.0+

With bfcache enabled, back should be blazingly fast. But if you middle-clik on
back, new tab is reloaded again, not taken from the cache.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Enable bfcache
1. Go to page 1
2. Go to page 2
3. Middle click back

Actual Results:  
Page 1 is reloaded in new tab

Expected Results:  
Page 1 should be taken from the cache

This might be Core bug, but I think that it is not.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

I'm really not sure if we could do this, bug I'll add it to the dependency list
of bug 236107 and see if anyone weighs in.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

See bug 298571, comment 9:
"Actually, the clone window extension seems to do approximately what is wanted here:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/clonewindow"

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Why is this a core bug?  This is just bug 271851 in another guise.  Core has no idea that history is involved in any way here -- it's just told to do a load of a URI, and does it...  

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dup to bug 448546