310961 - back-button disabled in single tab browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 323407

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[C.H.Lai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051003 SeaMonkey/1.1a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051003 SeaMonkey/1.1a

Back button is disabled (also Alt-left arrow, and back in menu View->Back).
New a tab make the "back" function appear again.
I am not sure if this is related to other back-button related bugs. e.g. 245873,
232344....

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.(assume no seamonkey is active)
2.open a seamonkey browser
3.click the "seamonkey" icon on top left corner of brower, which navigate to
mozilla.org.
4.click a link, e.g. "release note", this navigate to release note page. please
note that back button is not enabled yet.
5.try click "back" button, and cannot browse back to mozilla.org.
6. now, go menu File->new->navigator tab. a new tab appear.
7. click back to original tab. woooo! the back button is enabled, and clicking
it can browse back to mozilla.org.

Actual Results:  
see the steps description :-p

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme with linux seamonkey trunk 2005100701
Can you try a clean profile?  Do you have any extensions installed?

Comment 2

[Benoît]

Reporter, have you tried a clean profile?

Comment 3

[tech]

I've exactly the same problem with recent seamonkey release :
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; fr-FR; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0
and it is not a profile problem as my mozilla 1.7.12 using the same profile doesn't show this problem 
it's possibly linked to the #322326 as it seems to be both tab browsing bugs

Comment 4

[tech]

I wanted to precise that even when the back button became active after opening other tabs it doesn't actually act on the first tab and as it is also impossible to close the first tab, I don't know what would happen if the second tab could become the first... 

Comment 5

[tech]

I've just tried with a new profile and all is working now, even other problems
on bugs I've submited or voted are gone, I'm going to reinstall one by one the
extensions I have in my previous profile to try to identify the problematic one ;)

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply Tech comment #5)
> I've just tried with a new profile and all is working now, even other problems
> on bugs I've submited or voted are gone, I'm going to reinstall one by one the
> extensions I have in my previous profile to try to identify the problematic one

Tech, what did you find?

Comment 7

[tech]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply Tech comment #5)
> > I've just tried with a new profile and all is working now, even other problems
> > on bugs I've submited or voted are gone, I'm going to reinstall one by one the
> > extensions I have in my previous profile to try to identify the problematic one
> 
> Tech, what did you find?
> 
It seems that the problem came from Live HTTP header, or session saver.
Check bug #323407

Comment 8

[Mike Cordeiro]

I'm experiencing this same problem with Seamonkey. I've just upgraded from Mozilla and now the back button doesn't work unless I open a new tab.

Sorry, but how can I go about creating a new profile without losing all my mail, prefences, etc?

Comment 9

[Andrew Schultz]

The purpose of the clean problem is not to "fix" the problem, but rather to help diagnose the cause of the problem.  The likely cause is an extension in your profile.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you still see this problem?

Comment 11

[tech]

(In reply to comment #10)
> do you still see this problem?
> 

I never had again this problem, since I stopped using Live http header and Session Saver

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping