306544 - Back button goes back too far after "site not found" or "network timeout"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philip Chalmers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Scenario:
*   I'm googling and page 3 of Google's results shows sonething that looks
interesting.
*   When I click the link, FF can't get anything from the site. Most common
reasons are DNS problem ("cannot find the site"; can be a transient if Web
heavily loaded) and site server problem (usually leads to "network timeout error").

If I click "Back" or press ALT and <-, FF goes back to Google's page 2 instead
of page 3, i.e. goes back one page too far. But then if I click "Forward" or
press ALT and -> FF goes to Google page 3 the right page).

Looks minor but will put new users off and they may switch back to (ugh!) IE.
If FF cannot get 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See "details"
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Actual Results:  
See "details".

Expected Results:  
Always show the last successfully displayed page if user clicks "Back" or
presses ALT and <- in FF's error page. On going back to the right page, FF
should disable "Forward".

Comment 1

[Stephen Smith]

WFM in Deer Park Alpha 2. There have been a number of changes to the Navigation
components since Firefox 1.0.6, including the introducion of bfcache. Please
attempt to replicate this bug in a more recent version of Mozilla Firefox.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 226401 -> Core bug 157004?

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050903 Firefox/1.6a1
ID:2005090314

Works for me. There are not any modal dialogs for errors like this now -- there
are error pages.