967321 - Feature Request - Make about:newtab part of history

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 776167

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[akumaxyz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

* Open Firefox
* Open a New Tab (equivalent of about:newtag)
* Click on any one of your popular home links (9 pages - 3 x 3 grid)
* Click Back


Actual results:

Nothing - when you click on one of your popular home link pages, it instantiates it as the 1st page in your current browsing session for that tab.


Expected results:

It should go back to your New Tab page

Work around:
* when opening a new tab, go to about:newtab in your address bar.  
* it will instantiate it as the 1st page, so when you click on a popular home link, and then press Back in the browser, it will go back to about:newtab

Comment 1

[iamjayakumars]

Try with the new profile. I'm not facing any issue in that. 

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems. 
See "Creating a profile": 
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles 
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues 

Profile Backup and Restore
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Reproduced with 28.0b1 and 2014-02-10-03-02-01-mozilla-central-firefox-30.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.