309079 - Back / Forward don't always return to the same place on a page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jklussman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050917 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050917 Firefox/1.4

Selecting to a link on Blue's News and then selecting to go Back to Blue's News
doesn't return the browser to the displaying the same portion of the page. 
Going Forward and then Back again will return the browser to displaying the top
of the page.

This has been seen on other sites as well, but I don't remember exactly which
ones.  Firefox 1.0.4 and IE do not have this problem.

For a mozillaZine thread on this, please see
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=316777

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Blue's News (http://bluesnews.com/), scroll down the page, and select a
link. From the linked page, scroll down a little more and then select to go Back.
2. Upon returning to Blue's News (and having Blue's News finish loading), the
page has shifted and a different area of the page is being shown than was shown
before clicking on the link. Going Forward and then Back again (so that you're
back at Blue's News) makes it even worse because Firefox is now showing the top
of the page. 
Actual Results:  
Page is not redisplayed to show the same portion of the page as it had been
showing before.

Expected Results:  
The same portion of the page should be shown as it had been previously.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050918
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005091812

WFM

Comment 2

[Rishi Maharaj]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050918 Firefox/1.4 -
Build ID: 2005091805.

On coming back to bluesnews.com for the first time, I'm a few lines *below* were
I was when I clicked the link. On coming back for the second time, I'm at the
top of the page.

Comment 3

[jklussman]

This isn't entirely the same, but it is somewhat similar.

1. Go to http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/ and after scrolling down, click
on a link - I clicked the Contact Us link near the bottom of the left column.
2. Select to go Back.
3. The page will always load at the top.

IE redisplays the page at the proper location, but even 1.0.4 always loads at
the top.

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 1. Go to http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/ <..> 
> IE redisplays the page at the proper location, but even 1.0.4 always loads at
> the top.

It seems this page uses cache-control: no-store, see Core bug 215405.

Comment 5

[Bill Atkerson]

Happening to me recently on PC/Windows XP using Firefox 1.5.0.6.

If in middle of a large page, and click on a link, then click "back", the page relocates to the correct place--i.e., where the link was clicked.

If I go forward and back, I now get the top of the original page rather than the location where the link was clicked.

Put another way:

1. In middle of page one, click on link for page 2.

2. While looking at page 2, click "back" button.

3. Now you are in middle of page one where you clicked the link for page 2 (this is correct).

4. Now click the forward button to go to page 2.

5. Now click back button again to go to page one HOWEVER you now wind up at the top of page one rather than the middle of page one where the link to page 2 was clicked on.

Put yet another way, if you start in the middle of a page, click on a link, the click "back" then "forward" then "back" you wind up at the top of the page you started with rather than in the middle.

FOR EXAMPLE:

1. Click on this link (no commentary, please): http://www.loveme.com/women/update.htm

2. Scroll way down and click on the writing next to one of the pictures (not on the picture itself).

3. Click back.

4. Click forward.

5. Click back and your at the top of the page I gave you rather than where you started.

Good luck.

Bill Atkerson
[e-mail]

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 7

[jklussman]

I am using Firefox 2.0.0.3, and I still see this issue.  It's less frequent than it used to be but definitely still there.

Comment 8

[Akkana Peck]

I see this often (in 2.0.0.6) when going Back to pages that have no-cache and are therefore reloading from the web (see bug 112564) -- they not only reload but they also usually scroll back to the top.

For instance, http://linux.conf.au/programme/ -- scroll down, click on a link, then go back. You'll end up at the top of the page, not where you were scrolled.

Comment 9

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug is part of a query for Firefox bugs that have Status set to NEW, but have version field set to 2.0 or older and have not changed in over 800 days.

http://tiny.cc/forgottennewbugs

If you still see this bug, or if it is still valid with Firefox 3.6.10 or a firefox 4 nightly build, please update the version field and steps to reproduce.

Comment 10

[Ursan Marius Bogdan]

Windows XP SP2, running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120316 Firefox/13.0a2, i was not able to reproduce this.

Comment 11

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Ursan Marius Bogdan from comment #10)
> Windows XP SP2, running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120316
> Firefox/13.0a2, i was not able to reproduce this.

Me neither (OSX), so marking WFM.