749321 - Going back through multiple history entries will reload pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1335148

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

STR:
1) Go to http://www.google.com
2) Go to http://people.mozilla.com/~bnicholson/test/page1.html
3) Go to http://people.mozilla.com/~bnicholson/test/page2.html
4) Click back
5) Click back

Expected result:
Google will load instantly (and with no throbber)

Actual result:
The throbber is shown, and the page is not pulled from the cache.

If you click back after step 2, Google will load instantly, so it appears that this bug only happens when going back more than once. This issue is not reproducible on desktop.

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

This is happening because we limit the cache size:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/app/mobile.js#143

This pref value is different on desktop because they have more resources to work with. I think it is a WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I think we do want to make the change. Maybe bump to 5, but not a blocker.