browser oddities

browser oddities

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I've just come across another bit of 2.6 trivia.

When browsing the web using mozilla-1.5a on a 2.6.0-test3-mm2 boot,  I 
find that using the back button takes you back to the top of the 
previous page.

So I rebooted to 2.4.22-rc2, and now the back button takes you back to 
the point of departure on the previous page.

Thats the best description I can give, and of course I have NDI what 
might be causeing it, but it is a bit startling.

This should work as expected before a real 2.6.0 is allowed out to 
play.

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Re: browser oddities

[Tupshin Harper]

Gene Heskett wrote:

>Greetings;
>
>I've just come across another bit of 2.6 trivia.
>
>When browsing the web using mozilla-1.5a on a 2.6.0-test3-mm2 boot,  I 
>find that using the back button takes you back to the top of the 
>previous page.
>
>So I rebooted to 2.4.22-rc2, and now the back button takes you back to 
>the point of departure on the previous page.
>
>Thats the best description I can give, and of course I have NDI what 
>might be causeing it, but it is a bit startling.
>
>This should work as expected before a real 2.6.0 is allowed out to 
>play.
>
>  
>
I'm running Mozilla 1.5a on 2.6.0-test3 (almost unpatched). Browser 
correctly goes to the last scrolled position (on most pages) after 
clicking the back button. I have periodically seen the symptom you 
describe, but I don't believe it's kernel related, since I have seen 
that symptom on 2.4. I would run more tests on both kernels, and look 
for additional variables that could be contributing to it. You might 
also try then non-mm2 test3 in the remote chance that it is a kernel 
problem. Also, make sure the problem isn't specific to certain web 
pages(right now, the problem manifests itself on the bugzilla pages, but 
not on a handful of others that i've just checked), and check against 
bugzilla 210992: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210992

-Tupshin