330286 - Back Button disabled after closing print preview window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[pilot329]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

When you click on Print Preview under the file menu and then close out of it, the back button is disabled, even if you had gone to other pages prior to the print preview.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a few websites.
2. Go to File, Print Preview
3. Click on the "Close" button

Actual Results:  
The back button is disabled, even after you had gone to other pages previously.

Expected Results:  
The back button should still have been enabled because we had gone to pages prior to clicking on "Print Preview"

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** Bug 330287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 331062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Kim Korn]

I only experienced this problem if the page was actually printed from the print preview window.  Just viewing the print preview window did not cause the back button to be disabled.

Comment 4

[Zoe Gillenwater]

Yes, I can confirm that it only happens when you print from the print preview window (I always do this, so I overlooked this criteria).

Zoe

Comment 5

[Matt]

I can confirm this bug too. It will happen anytime something is changed in the print preview window.  For example, this bug will occur if you change the page layout, zoom, or click on the page setup button. 

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 357423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Zeke Weeks]

I'm experiencing the same behavior with Firefox 2.0.0.3 with Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5.2.  It especially seems to occur when using our internal Bugzilla bug tracking system (oddly enough).  When I click on another active browser tab, and return to the tab that was used to print from, the back button suddenly re-appears.

Comment 8

[Brian Katzung]

1) Probably a minor point in light of Matt's comment, but you can cancel the print from print preview and you still get the bug. (Might be convenient to know during testing.)

2) javascript:history.go(-1) works even though the back button doesn't.

Comment 9

[chbok]

I just notice this bug in my last Firefox version on Win XP (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10).

The Web history (including Buttons Back and Forward) works anew when you just open some of dialogs UI. Strange ;)

Comment 10

[cjkardaras]

I can confirm that this problem hsa gotten *worse* in FF 3.5/3.5.1 on Vista (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1).  Pre-3.5, I could use History --> Back to go back a page when the Back button was greyed out after printing via print preview.  Now, the Back entry on the History menu is greyed out as well as the Back button.

Comment 11

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Changing "Version" field from 1.8 to Trunk, since comment 10 indicates that this problem persists beyond version 1.8 (Firefox 2).

FWIW, I can't reproduce this on Ubuntu Linux -- I tried both Firefox 3.5.1 and the 20090718 mozilla-central nightly.

Comment 12

[Zeke Weeks]

I'm using FF 3.5.2 on a WinXP SP3 PC and can no longer re-create the print preview problem. I'm also using the Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.1 Add-on.

Comment 15

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Could bug 402442 be related or a dupe of this one even it has a bit different steps?

Comment 16

[Brian Katzung]

I'm definitely still seeing this bug as of FF 3.5.2.

Comment 18

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

I can't reproduce this on trunk.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100116 Firefox/3.5.6

Comment 19

[cjkardaras]

I no longer see this problem in FF 3.6, under XP or Vista.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Comment 20

[Bozhan Boiadzhiev]

Back button is disabled if is used:

 <a href="#" onClick="window.print()">PRINT</a>

or this is another bug?!?!