45864 - browser "forgets" last page visited after window.location.href is modified

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58906

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

Description

[Dave]

Overview Description: 

After viewing info on a model at carpoint, the back button will take you to the
page you were at before going to that site instead of the main carpoint page.

Steps to Reproduce: 
1) start mozilla and visit a page... we'll call it www.foobar.com
2) go to http://carpoint.msn.com and choose a make and model to view
3) click the "go" button
4) hit the back button which should take you back to carpoint.msn.com but
instead takes you to www.foobar.com

Actual Results: 

browser goes back two pages instead of one, "forgetting" the page where the
onClickGo() ocurred.

Expected Results: 

browser goes back to page containing the onClickGo()

Reproducibility: 

Always.

Build Date & Platform Bug Found: 

2000071810/Linux

Additional Builds and Platforms Tested On: 

works on NS4.7/IE5.1

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine - reassigning to DOM Level 0

Comment 2

[cheng]

A similar thing happen on http://www.cnn.com/, at the upper right corner with
the list of shows.  The drop list changes location.href when the onChange event
is triggered.

Comment 3

[cheng]

I think this is more of a history bug than a DOM bug.  Confirming on 2000071910
on Linux.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

radha, could you have a look at this?

Comment 5

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

This is JS history fiasco.

Comment 6

[fig\tree]

*** Bug 46355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[fig\tree]

is this related to bug 39938 by any chance?

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

updating qa contact

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

updating qa contact

Comment 10

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

This got fixed when 18321 was fixed.

Comment 11

[cheng]

Are you sure this is fixed?  I cannot access carpoint for some reason, but on
http://www.cnn.com, if you select something from the dropbox on the upper left
(CNN sites) and select one of them, then pressing "Back" skips over the cnn main
page.  This has been tested on 2000080308 (M18) on Linux.

Comment 12

[Dave]

I'm still seeing the described behaviour on carpoint with 2000080308/Linux

Comment 13

[cheng]

Reopening based on comments from various people.

Comment 14

[Dave]

this now works with 2000081020/Linux. Setting back to fixed.

Comment 15

[Dave]

CNN test case also works (2000081020/Linux)

Comment 16

[Dave]

I'm seeing this again on 2001022809/Linux. It's no longer related to onClickGo,
however, so reopening and changing summary to reflect new problem: modifying
window.location.href causes page to be removed from session history.

Comment 17

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

The problem here is not location.href. The problem is the same as in bug 56806.
THe images in the subframe take a long time to load. If you jump to another site
while the image in the subframe is laoding, it confuses SH. This is reported in
56806. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56806 ***

Comment 18

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

sorry, that should have been 58906.

Comment 19

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58906 ***

Comment 20

[Chad Austin]

verified dups