450352 - History lists out of order when redirects have occurred

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Patrick Dubroy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080812020515 Minefield/3.1a2pre

When a URL is typed into the URL bar that results in a redirect, history lists show the pages in an incorrect order.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I type google.com into the URL bar. This redirects to http://www.google.com, and since I live in Canada, redirects again to http://www.google.ca
2. Look at either the history menu, the history sidebar (and select View->By Last Visited), or the library history (History->Show All History)
Actual Results:  
Pages appear in the all of the above mentioned lists in the following order:

1. http://google.com
2. http://www.google.ca
3. http://www.google.com



Expected Results:  
They should appear in the correct chronological order:

1. http://www.google.ca
2. http://www.google.com
3. http://google.com

Maybe all 3 entries shouldn't even be shown; but if they are, the should appear in the correct order.

I have verified that this problem also appears on Mac OS (3.0.1), but does not happen in Firefox 2.0.0.16 (Mac)

I ran wget to see exactly how the redirect is happening:

$ wget http://google.com
--00:00:51--  http://google.com/
           => `index.html'
Resolving google.com... 72.14.207.99, 64.233.167.99, 64.233.187.99
Connecting to google.com|72.14.207.99|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.google.com/ [following]
--00:00:51--  http://www.google.com/
           => `index.html'
Resolving www.google.com... 72.14.205.99, 72.14.205.103, 72.14.205.104, ...
Connecting to www.google.com|72.14.205.99|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.ca/ [following]
--00:00:51--  http://www.google.ca/
           => `index.html'
Resolving www.google.ca... 72.14.205.147, 72.14.205.99, 72.14.205.103, ...
Reusing existing connection to www.google.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

    [ <=>                                 ] 6,650         --.--K/s             

00:00:51 (545.05 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [6650]

Comment 1

[Patrick Dubroy]

Attachment: Screenshot showing out of order history

Sometimes, older pages even get mixed into the list, as shown in the attached screenshot. However, I can't as reliably reproduce that.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

History menu right now filters out redirects, and the sidebar has correct order. WFM!
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110502 Firefox/6.0a1