71500 - back button skips this page but only the first time

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Claudius Gayle]

***Overview Description: 

  The back button skips over www.nerve.com after following a link and trying to
go back but only the first time you try it.

***Steps to Reproduce: 

1) Load any page.

2) Load http://www.nerve.com

3) Click the photography link about a pageful down in the middle or the text
link for 'photography' in the nav links at the very bottom.

4) Click the back button on the browser toolbar.

***Actual Results: 

	The back button skips over nerve.com and you go to the page you loaded
in step (1) above.

***Expected Results: 

	Clicking back should take you to the previous page, in this case, nerve.com

***Build Info: 

	2001030810 on all platforms.

***Additional Information:

this is an offshoot of bug 68355. here are my initial ramblings on the subject:
Fiddling with this I got the following results with Mac, Linux, and Win98 trunk builds 2001030810:

I tried to load www.nerve.com, most if not all of the page seemed to render but the throbber wouldn't
stop.
I clicked the 'photography' link which is about a pageful down in the middle of the page.
I let that page mostly render - url replaced, 1 frame loaded and rendered, contents of 2nd(main)
frame began to render - and then clicked the Back button on the toolbar.

I was taken back to the page previous to www.nerve.com - 2 pages back! I didn't see any JS
errors in the console though. SO is this just a different bug? Sounds a lot like some of the
ones i thought we'd already fixed.

Comment 1

[Jacob Kjome]

I think I'm seeing this, but it seems to be reproduceable every time.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://www.mozillazine.org/
2. Click the responses link for "OEone 'Operating Environment'":
  http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1893
3. Scroll down the page and click on macpeep's reponse titled "my god!":
  http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1893&message=6#6
4. Now click the "back" button

Expected results:
I should go back to the previous page
"http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1893"

Actual Results:
I end up back at the Mozillazine home page.  The expected result page seems to
have been lost by the history for some reason????

Using the latest build:  Win32 build 2001040520 on Win2k

Jake

Comment 2

[Jacob Kjome]

Sorry for the spam, but I saw the same thing I just described also happen when I
did a query in bugzilla for history bugs.  This time, the page loaded but the
throbber was still going after many minutes and I hit the "stop" button.  Then I
hit the "back" button which took me back to the bugzilla home page rather than
the query page which was the one I had just come from.

Seems to be very reproduceable.

jake

Comment 3

[Phil Peterson]

I'm seeing this too. 

Loaded http://www.audioresearch.com 
Clicked on Products 
Clicked on one product
Clicked Back
Went back to ARC home page rather than Products page

Comment 4

[Jacob Kjome]

the behavior that I was commenting on seems to be fixed in bug 74960

Also, the behavior that Claudius is describing seems to have been fixed right
along with it from what I can tell.  I went through the steps described and
everything worked fine from me on win32 build 2001040904 win2k.

However, I did see another bug which seems a bit unrelated, but I'll describe it
here to see if one of you can reproduce it.

I loaded http://www.nerve.com and that worked fine the first time.  However,
when I went to the "photography" link and then hit the "back" button, not all
the images loaded.  Then I loaded another page, and then loaded
http://www.nerve.com again.  This time, both the horizontal and vertical
scrollbars became really small; the height and width of the page seemed to, all
of a sudden, become extremely large.  Most of the space on the page was taken up
by just a background color.

Can anyone reproduce that?

jake

Comment 5

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I can't reproduce the problem in any of the urls mentioned here.

Comment 6

[Paul Wyskoczka]

Verified in build 2001060509.