468378 - Prev/Next drop menu has too few options

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Will Pittenger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

The combined prev/next drop menu is nice, but it has one flaw.  It works best when you are either at the first page viewed in a tab or the most recent one.  Then it shows 15 items.  Now if you have viewed, say, 100 pages in that tab and want to go back, you can go back 15 page at once, but only the first time.  After that, you are stuck with less as some of those pages are in the wrong direction.

I think that the menu should show 15 in each direction /plus/ the current page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a tab and start viewing page.  One way would be to poke around Wikipedia.
2.Wait until you have at least 30 pages that you could go back to.
3.Attempt to go back to the first page.
Actual Results:  
You will be able to go back 15 pages with the first click.  After that, you can only go back at a slower pace.

Expected Results:  
Users should be able to go back (or forwards) 15 pages at a time regardless of where they are in the tab's history.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.

Comment 3

[Will Pittenger]

(In reply to comment #2)
> No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new
> profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to
> see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment
> on this bug.

Sorry.  My Internet access has been acting up and I was unable to reply.  I just tested it in 3.6.12.  See the attached screenshots.

Comment 4

[Will Pittenger]

Attachment: This is what you see at one end of the list

Comment 5

[Will Pittenger]

Attachment: Now this is what you see in the middle of the history list

As you can see, the number of entries is the same.