I have a bug that says "I'm not able to go back to the blank page". I know that
this issue has come up on and off in the past. I just want to know if this is
a design decision we made and don't intend to revisit it. However the code in
docshell checks only for "about:blank". Any other about: will get in to SH.
Gagan Saksena wrote:
> I cant remember the details but I think the reasoning was just that-- we
> didn't want about:anything to be in session history. Is there a specific
> reason you'd want them there? Or are you just looking at optimizing this?
> (which I believe would not be that fruitful since the check is only an
> int-compare)
>
> -Gagan
> <sent with 4.7 since I hosed my 6.0 too badly... installing again>
>
> Judson Valeski wrote:
>
> > Radha Kulkarni wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any particular reason that we don't want to add about:blank to
> > > SH. There is explicit code in docshell, that looks for about:blank and
> > > prevents it from getting in to SH.
> >
> > Looks like Gagan added that code; Gagan?
> >
> > Personally, it seems reasonable to me that we wouldn't want to go back
> > to about:blank.
> >
> > Jud
> >
> > > I have a bug regarding this ( 56467
> > > ) and would like to address it properly.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Radha
> > >
