651338 - Plug-in Check URL (stack) smashes Namoroka History and makes it inoperable.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 534178

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18pre) Gecko/20110419 Namoroka/3.6.13pre Firefox.3.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18pre) Gecko/20110419 Namoroka/3.6.13pre Firefox.3.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)

The Plug-in Check URL http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ smashes (loads and overflows) the Namoroka History Stack and makes it inoperable (can not go Back even with a click on the down-arrow).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Surf and get some History in a Tab
2. Click on the URL above (or here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ ).
3. The "Plugin Check" Page reloads and reloads and reloads; but in doing so it packs your URL History with "Plugin Check" as a History.
4. Try left-click on the [Back] Button, you do NOT return to this Page.
5. Try left-click on the down-arrow (to the right of [Back] Button) and scroll to the bottom, now quickly repeat that action; you can NOT get back in your History.

The Bug is that a visit to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ stuffs your History with superfluous reloads (Website Problem) _AND_ the "History Back Button" refuses to even let you 'go back to a reload' (even with TWO quick attempts) so you can attempt to jump back to this (or any other) prior Page (Browser Problem).



Expected Results:  
We expect all the Buttons to work as advertised.

One click on [Back] should be enough but in rare circumstances we might need to click on the down-arrow (to the right of the [Back] Button), since that is what it is there for; but that is also not working.

Comment 2

[Rob]

Thanks for spotting the Dupe Alice. I _did_ Search a few times but found nothing.

It seems that this is a very old Bug, I hope it gets fixed sometime soon.