[Xymon] Odd back button behavior in Firefox

[Robert Herron]

Chrome and Edge don't exhibit this behavior. I suspect it has something to
do with the title changing due to the test timestamp combined with whatever
behavior changes in FF.  I have several tests that run every 2 minutes --
UPS monitoring.  I was updating one of them and spent a good while on that
page testing my changes.

Not the end of the world but minor annoyance.

Thanks for confirming my experience and the commiserating.

Robert Herron
robert.herron at gmail.com


On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:39 AM John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk>
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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