Bug 3546 – Can't go back after first link followed from a new window opened by gmail

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: History

[Stuart Morgan]

* SUMMARY
If you click an external link in a gmail message, then navigate to another page
in the new window (using bookmarks, following a link, typing a url, etc.), the
page that was originally opened can't be returned to with the back button (the
button is disabled, and if you browse further the window/tab history on the back
button will never show it).  It doesn't even show up in the global history,
either the menu or the listing in the bookmark manager.

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a gmail email with a link in it
2. Click the link
3. Navigate to another page in the new window
4. Try to get back to the previous page through any means

* RESULTS
Page is mysteriously missing from history.

* REGRESSION
Also broken in 10.3.9; haven't tried regressing further back

Apple Bug: rdar://4147975

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Reassigning to webkit-unassigned for more exposure.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

GMail is Google.

[Brady Eidson]

"rediscovered" this bug while exploring + fixing http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12117
I need to take a more seriously look at it now!!

[Brady Eidson]

Confirmed nothing "bad" happens in a release build other than the opened link getting left out of global and back/forward history.  That noted, it may be a little while before I get to this one.

[Brady Eidson]

<rdar://problem/4664154>

[Brady Eidson]

Fixed landed in r20878

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

*** Bug 13122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***