321975 - Following image link does not add past page to history

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Jacob Eisinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When you click on the zoom image link in the PC World article, the zoomed images is brought up.  But, you can't go back to the article.  The back button goes back to the page viewed before the article.  The link javascript:history.back(-1); also does not work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124078,00.asp#
2. Click on the image about half way down to zoom into the Gnome Sound Preferences
3. Try to go back to the article

Actual Results:  
The browser goes back to the page viewed before the article.

Expected Results:  
The browser should go back to the article

I found some bugs that are related to loss of history.
  Very related bugs: Bug 207880 Bug 210725 Bug 306403 Bug 308089 Bug 163353 Bug 249772
  Somewhat related: Bug 163363

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051230 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005123023

I tried this repeatedly in 1.0.7, 1.5 and 1.6a1 but I could not reproduce this.
On the contrary, after clicking Back I see http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124078,00.asp but scrolled back to top and when I click Back once more I see the same page again but scrolled down to the image link.
Internet Explorer does that in one move.

Comment 2

[Jacob Eisinger]

I just tried this bug on Windows.  I am getting the same behaivor on Windows as Comment #1.  My build is 1.5: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Can anyone reproduce on a different distrobution of Linux (I was using ubuntu, with a fresh install of 1.5 from mozilla.org)?

Comment 3

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005111116
Works for me.
Reporter, can you reproduce this bug in safe mode? (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode)

Comment 4

[Jacob Eisinger]

I just tried in safe-mode in linux under ubuntu: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5.  I am getting the same result at Comment #1.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

reporter: is this still an issue with the current Firefox version?

Comment 6

[Jacob Eisinger]

I should have isolated this bug.  Before, it was not opening a new window and the history problem was occurring.  Now, a new window is opening.  So, the bug does not exist anymore for me.  What status should I change the bug to?