Can't navigate Back after navigating to Home

Bug #253400 reported by Michael Rooney
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Mozilla Firefox
New
Undecided
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One Hundred Papercuts
New
Undecided
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

If you go Home (such as by either clicking the Home icon, or using Alt+Home on the keyboard) you can no longer go back to where you were by pressing the back button or using Alt+Back.

I believe this is because the Home command maps to "chrome://ubufox/content/startpage.html", which then redirects to http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/. As a result, when you press back, it just goes back to "chrome://ubufox/content/startpage.html", which of course redirects you again to the very home page you were trying to navigate away from!

I guess there are a few ways to fix this:
 - have Home send you directly to the proper page
 - have ubufox redirect in a way which does not add another entry to the History
 - have ubufox delete one of the entries (perhaps it's own) after sending you to the proper page

or more I haven't thought of. On a semi-tangential note, this can be a generic issue with Firefox, when trying to go back after being redirected. It might be nice if it detected redirects and handled the Back logic appropriately.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Confirming - tested on a fresh FF3 profile

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Confirmed
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote :

Yes Martin, this still affects Intrepid. I appreciate your triaging work and attention to this bug but you probably could have reproduced this in less time than it took to Incomplete this bug :)

Changed in firefox-3.0:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Yes, Michael, You are right, I could have checked it within seconds. I was just looking through some old bugs which I need to be pushed a little so they get not lost. My misstake that I overlooked some easy ones which I could have confirmed myselfmind. I promise to improve :)

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