49000 - Navigating site is not enabling back button

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 56062

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

Description

[Devoti Paolo]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000813
BuildID:    2000081308

If you open the provided url "as a new window" and you navigate the site using
the links on the left of the page the back button is never enabled.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open http://www.top.or.jp/~yuyu/finger.htm
2.right click on "athlon maximizer" and "open link in new window"
3.click one at a time on the links on the left (skip contact)

Actual Results:  The back button is never enabled

Expected Results:  back button enabled allowing to go back in history

Comment 1

[blockcipher]

Using 082208 on Win98, I can confirm this bug using the provided  URL and
another site, www.annihilated.com.

Comment 2

[Tom Mraz]

I can confirm this on Linux nightly build 2000090621. Could someone change the
OS to All?
Similar behavior you can see if you open-in-new-window this URL:
http://www.czechcomputer.cz/ and click on some link in the horizontal bar (for
example Ceniky and then you browse in the inner frame. No link clicking enables
the back button.

Comment 3

[Claudius Gayle]

I checked this with a mac build 2000090604.

Radha, the 'open in new window' makes this easy to see but it not what's really going
on. This might be a dupe or a regression of an old bug. What's happening is the current
page is replacing the previous page in SH - so in this case there is only ever one item in
the session history(the current page), and rightly the 'Back ' button never becomes active.

If you don't 'open in new window' you will see that this bug causes you to skip a page
if you try to go back - once it skipped two for me.

Comment 4

[Tom Mraz]

This is dup of bug 46828, but this bug is not fixed although it's marked as
VERIFIED FIXED.

Comment 5

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

The problem with "Open in new window" is addressed by 56062. markign this dupe
of that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56062 ***

Comment 6

[Diego]

Verified dupe of bug 56062: "back/forward buttons don't work at first if first
page is framed"