409575 - Retain Back/Forward Functionality

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18808

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Harry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

After you use the history menu to open a new page in a new window, new tab or blank tab, you should still be use the back forward buttons with regards to what they did when you left the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search for something on Google
2. Choose one of the links
3. Exit that tabs
4. Reload that page in a new tab
5. Press back button
Actual Results:  
Doesn't do anything

Expected Results:  
GO back to search results

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

I'm fairly certain the behavior you request was not included in a new tab when the feature was created, for privacy reasons among others.  Full history can be accessed from several places.

Als,o do you know that you can re-open closed tabs via History > Recently Closed Tabs? If you do so, the history of that tab is maintained.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Isn't this a dupe of bug 18808, via bug 324787 ?

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Perhaps, but that bug has made no progress in over 8 years.  It's probably a won't fix too. I'm sure marking it as such would create quite a tussle. I suppose I need to go dig up resolved Tab development bugs that touched on this issue, though may not have been directly filed on it.