706139 - going back to previous site, FF 8.0 often doesn't restore scroll position

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[doc_jochim]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

I updated FF ;-)
If I go to www.google.de, scroll down and klick a link. Then I go back to the previous site.


Actual results:

The site's vertical position is not restored. In contrast to the desired focus, I'm focussed to the top of the page.


Expected results:

I want to see the previous page with an identical focus as I left the site.

IE8.0 stores the position and does what I want to see.
I'm of the opinion, that previous releases of FF already had the same bug (=> bug 215405). It was fixed (FF7 didn't show this behaviour) and now it's back again...

Not all pages are related to this bug. If I e.g. go to www.wikipedia.de, scroll down, klick a link and go back, I see the same focus of the site as I left it.

If I don't go to www.google.de but to the default firefox start-site (google startsite with firefox-label), clicking the back-button, curiously the vertical scroll-position of search-linklists are restored.

Comment 1

[doc_jochim]

I found an option in google properties, not to use google instant.

And you won't believe it, but now FF restores the scrolling-position as desired, when you go back to a previous site.

So it doesn't seem to be firefox' problem...

André