754710 - Unable to reload page with anchor in url by using Go button in url bar or software keyboard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186371

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Fennec native nightly 2012-05-13, Android 4.0.4 (stock), Google Nexus S

Fennec doesn't to reload a page with an anchor in the url if the user uses the Go button in url bar or software keyboard.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sex_and_the_City_episodes
2. Go to the bottom, click 'More'.
3. Tap the location bar, it should contain http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sex_and_the_City_episodes#section_footer
4. Press either the Go button in that bar or in the software keyboard.

Actual result:
Fennec doesn't try to reload the page.

Expected result:
Fennec reloads the oage.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Firefox on Desktop does this too. It's by design.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Is there a reason for this? (omething with javascript links? Because urls without anchors get reloaded.

Tapping the url bar and its Go button requires less finger movement than using the menu item which forces your finger to go to the bottom for opening the menu and then again to the top where the menu item resides.

Comment 3

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Archaeopteryx [:aryx] from comment #2)
> Is there a reason for this? (omething with javascript links? Because urls
> without anchors get reloaded.

Navigating to a URL with a fragment identifier, when that document is already loaded, scrolls the document rather than reloading it.  It might be okay to change this behavior for the URL bar if we want to, since this is mostly important for navigating by following links.