573266 - Implement history inheritance for tabs opened via "new tab" in context menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 569593

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jan D]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100514 Namoroka/3.7a.5pre

If a new tab is opened by a long-tap on a link and the selection of "open in new tab", the new page starts with a blank history. Instead of this we should implement a history inheritance so that the new tab inherits the history of its "origin-Tab", including the originating page as well.
This would be totally unobtrusive for UI and usage. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a link via "open in new tab"
2. Carry on surfing on the new tab. Close the origin-page. 
3. Imagine that there was another interesting link on the site that let you to the page you visit at the moment...
4. Try to access the origin page via back button  
Actual Results:  
it is not possible, since the history is not inherited.

Expected Results:  
Each page opened via "open in new tab" should inherit the history of the origin page and the origin page as well. 

There are plug-ins for the desktop firefox enabeling history inheritance.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14439/

Since the feature is imho very useful and (especially in contrast to other features) unobtrusive it should be implemented in fennec directly.

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Bug 515409 implements a slightly different solution the same problem:  When there is no previous page in the current tab, pressing the "back" key will close the tab and return to the parent tab if possible.