40505 - Back button goes back to top of page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16806

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[rob]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000524
BuildID:    2000052408

I would have thought *someone* has submitted this by now, but I can't find it
anywhere using the query. Using the back button takes you to the top of the
previous page, instead of where you were on the page.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Scroll down a page and click a link.
2. Once the new page is loaded, click the "back" button.


Actual Results:  The browser goes back to the top of the old page.	

Expected Results:  The browser should go back to exactly where you were on the
old page when you clicked the link.

This could be related to the fact that it appears that Mozilla reloads things
whenever you go back. This is not how a back button should work - if I think the
information's out of date when I go back, I'll hit Reload myself. Nothing should
be recieved from the network when Back is clicked. Anyway, having a page that
remains the same when you go back to it makes it that much easier to have the
browser return to the same spot.

Comment 1

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16806 ***

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

verified dup.