488701 - Using back button to get back to My Yahoo puts you at top of the page instead of the scrolled position of when you left.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Christian Pauli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9

So, you know when you have a large web page, and you scroll down, click on a link, read stuff then hit "Back", Firefox is nice enough to put you at the same scrolled position you were in.  Well, that doesn't work with the My Yahoo page.  Let's say I click on a News link at the bottom of My Yahoo page.  Then when I click "Back", Firefox puts me right at the top of the My Yahoo page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. my.yahoo.com (and login)
2. Scroll down some.
3. Click on a link (eg a News Item) that takes the page to a new address.
4. Click on Back.
Actual Results:  
The My Yahoo page is scrolled to the top.

Expected Results:  
Browser should have scrolled the window down to the position in the My Yahoo page that it was in when it left.

Only Firefox does this.  IE and Safari do not.  I cannot remember which 3.0.x version started this. Also, this only happens with the My Yahoo page.  For other web pages I have tried, Firefox does the right thing.

Comment 1

[Lee Reiswig]

Attachment: This is an intermittent problem

This problem is intermittent. Occasionally it does work properly. It was working for me consistently before I upgraded to Firefox 3.6.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in a fresh profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). Also update your plugins (flash, adobe reader, java, quicktime, silverlight, etc.) Go to the developer's website and download the latest version from there. If you no longer see this issue, please close this bug as RESOLVED, WORKSFORME. If you do see the bug, please post a comment.

Comment 3

[Lee Reiswig]

This is fixed for me in Firefox 3.6.12.

Comment 4

[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.