592021 - Prevent building history when cycling through Add-On Manager panes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Attachment: Back History Stack

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100830 Firefox/4.0b5pre

Currently in the above build, when cycling through the Add-On Manager panes Firefox will build an unnecessary history, and this in turn builds a rather hefty back history stack. 

What is the purpose of this tracking when the user has access to all panes in-front of them?

See my back history stack screenshot from just looking touring the panes.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is pretty standard behavior for web applications, so that you can navigate around and go back to where you were.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Also chrome will be removed by bug 571970. So you will only have the in-content back and forward buttons to navigate back and forward through the panes.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Also chrome will be removed by bug 571970. So you will only have the in-content
> back and forward buttons to navigate back and forward through the panes.

Ok, that's much more gratifying.