Closed Bug 269693 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Back button disabled when there is an error page displayed

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 226401

People

(Reporter: spooky, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I am using the option browser.xul.error_pages.enabled set to true.
I am browsing and when I click or type an invalid address or any page that can
not be displayed, I can not go back. The error page is displayed and the back
button is inactive. Although I am able to go back from the mouse... and it jumps
2 pages back instead of one. The I click forward to return to original page.
Sometimes it works just fine, sometimes is not working fine. Sometimes is
working on new tabes. Sometimes is not working on new tabs. A

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open browser, go to a page.
2. Type an invalid address. Error page opens.
3. Back button is disabled. You can not go back. You can go back from mouse's
back button.
Confirmed for:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open about:config. Toggle this option to true:
browser.xul.error_pages.enabled

2. Open http://www.google.com

3. Open http://www.mozilla.org in the same tab

4. Open http://www.sahdasjdhajskdasdksakdaskjde.com (random URL ;) )

5. Observe all kind of weird things happening to the function of the back
button. It sometimes is dissabled, sometimes it will work correctly and
sometimes it will go back two pages.
Duplicate of bug 226401?
(In reply to comment #2)
> Duplicate of bug 226401?
> 

Yes, it is.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 226401 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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