790994 - Back and Forward buttons become gray when the current tab remains the only open tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 793480

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Attachment: logs

Firefox Mobile 16.0b3
Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (Android 4.0.4)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a browsing history in one tab and navigate between the pages so that both the Forward and Back buttons are active
2. Open a second tab and navigate to any website.
3. Switch back to the first tab.
4. Open the tab drawer and close the inactive tab. Close the tab drawer and observe the Back and Forward buttons

Expected results:
The Back and Forward buttons are active

Actual results:
While this is the only opened tab the buttons are grayed. If the user opens a new tab the buttons become active again but once the second tab is closed the buttons become inactive again.

Notes:
Please see the videocapture: http://youtu.be/9IAUcuY6OtA

Comment 1

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

I am also able to reproduce the issue on Asus Transformer running Android 4.0.3

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I can reproduce this on the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0". Agreed for tracking 16; seems pretty clumsy.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This is tracking 16, can we get an update here as we're nearing cut-off?