firefox oddity

[darkoshi]

My home page contains many of my frequently visited links.

Lately my Firefox Back button often skips the prior page if it was my home page.

For example:
Home Page -> Page 1
click back button (goes back to Home Page, as expected)
Home Page -> Page 2
click back button (goes back to Page 1 instead of Home Page)

When I close and restart the browser and purposely try to recreate the problem, it doesn't happen.

When it has happened, and I checked my History, the History includes the Home Page - so it's not that my Home Page is being filtered out of the History.

At work, I've noticed a different problem occasionally.
Home Page -> Page 1
(back button is disabled)

Has anyone else noticed these kinds of issues lately? I'm wondering if it may be due to an add-on. But as I haven't been able to recreate it at will, I haven't tried disabling the add-ons yet.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Not seen it myself - but I never use the home page, I always use bookmarks.

(If it does happen without addons then you should report it)

[darkoshi]

At first I suspected it might be a purposeful change that was done, ie. "Oh, people wouldn't really want to go back to their Home Page!" Like when they removed the option for the new tab page to open the home page (though they did that for security reasons). Now you have to install an add-on like new-tab-override to set the new tab URL.

But since it doesn't happen every time, it's more likely a bug. It may even be related that particular add-on, since it's the last one I installed.

Yes, once I figure out exactly what is causing the problem, and if it happens on a new install too, I'll report it.