Odd back button behavior in Firefox

On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 08:18 -0500, Robert Herron wrote:

I'm having odd behavior with Mozilla Firefox's back button while viewing
Xymon tests.  This started somewhat recently but I don't recall when I first
noticed it.

Navigating to the test page is fine.  If I view the test then immediately use
the back button, Firefox goes back to the page/subpage.  If I stay on the
page for subsequent refreshes, I have to hit the back button once per refresh
that happens.  If I stay on the page long enough, the back button history
fills and I can no longer use the back button to get to the page/subpage.

Interesting issue :-) I have just tried this with Firefox 95.0.2. The FF
'sessionhistory' setting is set at 50 by default. So leaving a Xymon test page
refreshing for a while I found that I had to hit the back button 46 times to
get to the original page. Needless to say if I left it a bit longer, then I too
would not have been able to get back to the original page using the back
button.

In our case we only have a main page listing the hosts/tests, no sub-pages and
the like. So to get back from a test page is easy enough anyway.


John.

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