Closed Bug 47172 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Back function sometimes does nothing

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

x86
All
defect

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32444

People

(Reporter: dkarr, Assigned: radha)

References

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000731 BuildID: 2000073120 While navigating through the JDK API doc tree, it's very important for navigation to be convenient and "logical". The behavior of the "Back" function is relevant to this. In "Steps to Reproduce", I describe in detail the following scenario: 1. Select a class from the "All Classes" frame. 2. Page down to the start of the method summaries. 3. Click on the link for the first method. 4. In the method detail, click on a link for another class. 5. Press Back. In 4.73, it goes right back to where it was. In Mozilla, nothing happens. The Back button was sensitive, but nothing happened when I pressed it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Visit http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html 2. Click on "AbstractAction" in "All Classes" frame. 3. Click below the vertical scrollbar thumb to go down one page, so that the first method in the "Method Summary" is shown. 4. Click on the link for the detail for the "addPropertyChangeListener()" method. 5. In the "Specified by" section of this method detail, click on the link for the "Action" class. 6. The "Action" class is viewed, the Back button is sensitive. Now click on the Back button. Actual Results: The button clicks, but nothing happens. It doesn't go back to viewing the "addPropertyChangeListener()" method of "AbstractAction". Expected Results: It should have returned the main content frame to view the "addPropertyChangeListener()" method of the "AbstractAction" class.
I experienced the same - following the described steps made my back-button to be disabled ! Presing "Alt+Cursor-Back" made the back-button to be enabled again, but nothing happends while clicking on it, the back-history though has several entries.
Assignee: asa → radha
Component: Browser-General → History
QA Contact: doronr → claudius
->history, leaving to claudius the wonderful job of determining if this is a dup of all the 'back doesn't work!' bugs :P
Also disables the back button on linux 3009. Confirming and changing OS to all.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows NT → All
I think this is just a dup of bug 32444, since when I pulled the page out of the frameset, it worked fine. Please be sure to double-check this once that's fixed, however. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32444 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
VERIFIED Dupe
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: History: Session → Document Navigation
QA Contact: claudius → docshell
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