405844 - Url removed from global history is not removed from a tab's session history

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10

When you delete a URL or branch from your browsing history, it should also be deleted from your sessionstore.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to site 1 (e.g. http://www.google.com )
2. Go to site 2 (e.g. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org )
3. Remove site 1 from your History
4. Go back (alt+left arrow) in your history
Actual Results:  
You go back to site 1

Expected Results:  
You should have gone back to the site opened before site 1, or if you started out in this tab with site 1, the back function should be disabled.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Global history and session (back/forward) history are separate things.  I'm not convinced that deleting a global history item should change the behavior of session history.

Comment 2

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

I'm not convinced of that either, but if the session history is not changed, I'd like to see another way to change the session history. Now, the only way I see to remove a URL from the session history is to clear some/all private data and/or stop firefox, delete sessionstore.js, and then start firefox again, but I'm not even sure if that will do the trick...

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

there are many use-cases for deleting a URL from History.

if the use-case is to remove the tracks that show that you browsed something, then it's desirable that the deleted URL would be removed from all of what the user considers "history".

note that the reporter is talking about 3 different things here:

Browsing History (Places, eg: History menu, sidebar, and Library)
Session History (back/forward buttons, bfcache)
Session Restore (nsISessionStore, sessionstore.js)

but to a user, it's all just History.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

moving to general since involves decisions across components.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #4)
> moving to general since involves decisions across components.

... which can be the kiss of death.  Is there not a component that is "most" appropriate?