69358 2011-10-04 11:28:15 -0700 Allow creating new pages with a existing back forward list 2016-01-03 11:12:13 -0800 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit WebKit2 528+ (Nightly build) PC Linux RESOLVED DUPLICATE 115600 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756820 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706731 P2 Normal --- 1 cgarcia webkit-unassigned andersca ap beidson lantw44 mcatanzaro nekohayo sam oldest_to_newest 477785 0 cgarcia 2011-10-04 11:28:15 -0700 Tabbed browsers typically copy the bf list of the current tab for the new view when creating a new tab. Epiphany and midori do that by using WebCore::BackForwardList::addItem() to add items of current tab bf list to the bf list of the newly created tab. In WebKit2 the C API doesn't expose addItem() method to keep the API simple, so it would be better to be able to create a page with a existing bf list. 478163 1 ap 2011-10-04 22:05:25 -0700 Safari restores b/f list after a Web process crash, so there is apparently some way to do that. Not sure if it's using bundle API or not. 478178 2 cgarcia 2011-10-04 23:33:55 -0700 WebPageProxy::initializeWebPage() uses its own bf list, so that when web process crashes, initializeWebPage is called again for the existing page that register current bf list items in the new web process. 479221 3 beidson 2011-10-06 09:44:20 -0700 Safari on Lion also restores back/forward list from disk when you relaunch it, so there's definitely a way to do it outside of WebProcess crash recovery. 486653 4 cgarcia 2011-10-19 03:19:10 -0700 (In reply to comment #3) > Safari on Lion also restores back/forward list from disk when you relaunch it, so there's definitely a way to do it outside of WebProcess crash recovery. Yes, there's WebPageProxy::restoreFromSessionStateData(), but it's still different from creating a page with a given bf list object, so that when WebPageProxy::initializeWebPage() is called, the page already has the bf list we want. 486786 5 beidson 2011-10-19 07:44:00 -0700 (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Safari on Lion also restores back/forward list from disk when you relaunch it, so there's definitely a way to do it outside of WebProcess crash recovery. > > Yes, there's WebPageProxy::restoreFromSessionStateData(), but it's still different from creating a page with a given bf list object, so that when WebPageProxy::initializeWebPage() is called, the page already has the bf list we want. SessionStateData contains the back/forward list, amongst other things. The number of things it contains in the future might grow. Most of these things will likely be desirable for people who think they actually just want the list of URLs in the back/forward list. And if there's anything you don't want in there (I'd love to hear why you don't if there is anything), we could add filtering functions. Having a freely mutable back/forward list in the WebKit 1 API turned out to be a mistake, and we're not interested in replicating that mistake in WebKit 2. Treating a "session" as an opaque object that you can extract from a page and restore in to another page should be the only way to do this. Note that the use case you gave in your initial report is entirely and cleaning fulfilled by this! 1136340 6 mcatanzaro 2015-10-24 19:31:05 -0700 (In reply to comment #5) > SessionStateData contains the back/forward list, amongst other things. The > number of things it contains in the future might grow. Most of these things > will likely be desirable for people who think they actually just want the > list of URLs in the back/forward list. Sounds like we should investigating exposing this API in the GTK+ port. 1152132 7 mcatanzaro 2016-01-03 11:12:13 -0800 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115600 ***