57403 - history.back() broken

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[bht237]

Attached collection of files demonstrates a bug where history.back()
fails to work after loacation.replace() was used.
Note that the intention is to avoid to go back to "blank.htm"
and not to avoid to go back to the page that is loaded via location.replace().

Extract from the Netscape JavaScript Reference Manual:

"The replace method loads the specified URL over the current history entry, so after
the replace method is used, the user cannot navigate to the previous URL by using
Navigator's Back button."

Comment 1

[bht237]

Attachment: Simple test case (zip file)

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Session history problem, over to radha.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

really reassigning this time.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Confirmed with 110304 mozilla trunk build on NT

Comment 5

[bht237]

In combination with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57402
it becomes obvious that even little help popups such as the help window
in Navigator 4 with its little navigation frame at the bottom cannot be implemented.
Changed severity to critical

Comment 6

[selmer (gone)]

Nominating nsdogfood, need to have correct back/fwd navigation

Comment 7

[selmer (gone)]

Radha, this needs to be sooner than mozilla1.0.  Is there any way anyone can help?

Comment 8

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Actually this works now, after I fixed a location.replace() bug early this week. 

Comment 9

[Prashant Desale]

Verified with 2003-04-25-12-1.3.1 on winXP.