Closed Bug 29603 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

reloading by hitting enter in URL bar creates new history entry

Categories

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

x86
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

()

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: vidur, Assigned: radha)

Details

Go to any URL. Reload the page by placing the cursor at the end of the URL string in the URL bar and hitting enter. The page reloads correctly, but this seems to create a new history entry. As a result, hitting the back button doesn't truly go back - you need to hit the back button as many times as you reloaded as described above to get to the previous URL.
Probably not a beta1 candidate at this point in the cycle, but it would have been good to have had it fixed earlier. My guess is that we'll get many bug reports on this when we go public - unless you know precisely what's going on, it seems like history is broken.
another bug to go on the pile titled "every possible thing gets added to session history". Amazingly, sspiptzer wrote just such a bug (bug 29604) right after you wrote this (no coincedence?)
Quite possibly the same under the hood as bug 28758, "duplicate entries under the Go menu" -- where this is happening if the same Personal Toolbar or Bookmark entry is clicked on more than once.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M16
Fix checked in. Please verify.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: M16 → M15
VERIFIED with 2000032809 build
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: History: Session → Document Navigation
QA Contact: claudius → docshell
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