48501 - Back button filled with multiple history data on some refreshed pages

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Richard Solomon]

I've noticed this for a week or so. When your on a page that performs automatic
refreshing the back button history has multiple entries for the same page. A
good example of this is any of the Yahoo baseball pages. These page refresh
automaticly every 45 seconds.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

reporter, I went to the yahoo.com/sports/mlb and the page doesn't refresh. could
you please provide an example page where you see this problem.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - we need a sample page for this problem, as there are 
several ways refreshing can be achieved. <meta refresh> doesn't seem to add 
extra copies of a page to the history...

Gerv

Comment 3

[Richard Solomon]

If you go to http://sports.yahoo.com/ when a game is underway, and click on the 
inning you will see the problem when you click on the back button. Today there 
is a game at 1:05 pm EST. The screen reload every 45 seconds when the game is 
underway.

Comment 4

[blockcipher]

I tried this using build 2000082208 in Win98.  The bug does occur and my team
was losing badly while I confirmed this.  If you follow his directions, it is
easily reproduced, just do it before the season ends :-)

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to history.

Comment 6

[cheng]

This is also observed on Linux 2000082321.  The site I go to is
http://www.globeinvestor.com/, type in a stock symbol, and then select refresh
every 5 minutes just above the table, to the right.

Comment 7

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 59272 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Brett Granger]

Tracking this one instead of 59272...

Comment 9

[Peter Janes]

This may be the same behaviour as I'm seeing on http://www.mozillazine.org/: at
times (reliably but not always) the home page and the build comments page will
be added to the back button's history three or four times.  I don't see a
refresh in either page's source or headers, although I tend to notice it if I've
physically reloaded the page.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 62320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage team: nsbeta1 but p3. 

Comment 12

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Marking nsbeta1+

Comment 13

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

re-sumamrising

Comment 14

[selmer (gone)]

We're past time to cut these low priority bugs from mozilla0.8.  Please update
these bugs today. 

Comment 15

[cheng]

This is no longer appearing on http://www.globeinvestor.com on 2001020606.  Is
this fixed?

Comment 16

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Patch put in for bug 49913 ver 1.230 of nsDocShell fixed this bug too.

Comment 17

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying claudius' Fixed bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

if you think this particular bug is not fixed, please make sure of the following
before reopening:

a. retest with a *recent* trunk build.
b. query bugzilla to see if there's an existing, open bug (new, reopened,
assigned) that covers your issue.
c. if this does need to be reopened, make sure there are specific steps to
reproduce (unless already provided and up-to-date).

thanks!

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