Odd back button behavior in Firefox 🔗 link

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.

Xymon server is v 4.3.17.

I still need to test what other browsers and Firefox on a different PC are
doing in this situation.

Is anyone else having a similar experience?  Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Robert Herron
user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid

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.

wrote:

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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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 08:27:10AM -0500, Matt VanderWerf wrote:

I've been seeing the same thing here! Running Xymon server 4.3.30
(Terabithia RPMs). My guess is it was a Firefox update at some point that
is causing the behavior...no idea what or why....

I did notice that if I hit the back button enough times, it eventually goes
to the actual previous page...most of the time...

But glad someone else is seeing this....thought I was going crazy!

wrote:

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 08:27:10AM -0500, Matt VanderWerf wrote:

I've been seeing the same thing here! Running Xymon server 4.3.30
(Terabithia RPMs). My guess is it was a Firefox update at some point that
is causing the behavior...no idea what or why....

I did notice that if I hit the back button enough times, it eventually
goes
to the actual previous page...most of the time...

But glad someone else is seeing this....thought I was going crazy!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1742865

fixed in firefox 96


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