47172 - Back function sometimes does nothing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32444

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

Description

[David M. Karr]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000731
BuildID:    2000073120

While navigating through the JDK API doc tree, it's very important for
navigation to be convenient and "logical".  The behavior of the "Back" function
is relevant to this.

In "Steps to Reproduce", I describe in detail the following scenario:

1. Select a class from the "All Classes" frame.
2. Page down to the start of the method summaries.
3. Click on the link for the first method.
4. In the method detail, click on a link for another class.
5. Press Back.  In 4.73, it goes right back to where it was.  In Mozilla,
nothing happens.  The Back button was sensitive, but nothing happened when I
pressed it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html
2. Click on "AbstractAction" in "All Classes" frame.
3. Click below the vertical scrollbar thumb to go down one page, so that the
first method in the "Method Summary" is shown.
4. Click on the link for the detail for the "addPropertyChangeListener()" method.
5. In the "Specified by" section of this method detail, click on the link for
the "Action" class.
6. The "Action" class is viewed, the Back button is sensitive.  Now click on the
Back button.

Actual Results:  The button clicks, but nothing happens.  It doesn't go back to
viewing the "addPropertyChangeListener()" method of "AbstractAction".

Expected Results:  It should have returned the main content frame to view the
"addPropertyChangeListener()" method of the "AbstractAction" class.

Comment 1

[Alexander Kochann]

I experienced the same - following the described steps made my back-button to be
disabled ! Presing "Alt+Cursor-Back" made the back-button to be enabled again,
but nothing happends while clicking on it, the back-history though has several
entries.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

->history, leaving to claudius the wonderful job of determining if this is a 
dup of all the 'back doesn't work!' bugs :P

Comment 3

[Tomer Brisker]

Also disables the back button on linux 3009. Confirming and changing OS to all.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

I think this is just a dup of bug 32444, since when I pulled the page out of 
the frameset, it worked fine.  Please be sure to double-check this once that's 
fixed, however.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32444 ***

Comment 5

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe