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Bug 37224 - Random button doesn't maintain browser history on desktop site in Chrome and Safari


Summary:	Random button doesn't maintain browser history on desktop site in Chrome and ...

Status:	NEW

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Special pages (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Duplicates:	52128 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported:	2012-05-30 16:53 UTC by Jon
Modified:	2014-06-02 08:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester:	---

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Description Jon 2012-05-30 16:53:32 UTC

Load wikipedia home page
Click on the random button on m.wikipedia.org to get random article X
Click on it again to get random article Y
Click back.
I expect to get article X.
However instead I get the homepage.

Comment 1 Arthur Richards 2012-05-30 17:33:28 UTC

This appears to happen on the desktop site as well - I assume it is not related specifically to MobileFrontend

Comment 2 Arthur Richards 2012-05-30 17:52:57 UTC

From saper in #mediawiki:
awjr: just tried with opera on windows and get expected behaviour - back gives me previous random article
same with IE9
er
IE7
don't have chrome on win32 now

I also tried with FF on OS X, and it behaves as expected.

Chrome and Safari on OS X are affected by the unexpected behavior.

Comment 3 Platonides 2012-05-30 20:23:47 UTC

Where's the random button?

I don't see this in the desktop site with firefox. Browsers based on webkit seem affected.

Comment 4 Phil Chang 2012-05-31 22:27:46 UTC

The Random function is under the W or in the menu when you opt-in to the Beta mobile site:

bit.ly/wmoptin

Comment 5 Andre Klapper 2012-12-19 17:14:12 UTC

Works for me on bit.ly/wmoptin with a desktop browser (Firefox 17) and accessing four random articles - going back works.

Comment 6 Jon 2012-12-19 17:44:12 UTC

Still very much broken.
To be clear this is on desktop and only effects Chrome (Version 23.0.1271.101) and Safari - not Firefox.

Browser history is sacred.

Comment 7 Jon 2013-07-17 18:03:49 UTC

Still broken in latest Chrome. Does anyone have an ideas? This is really odd behaviour.

I guess this is because Special:Random is actually a link that redirects
So Main Page -> Special:Random -> Special:Random
Clicking back will thus of course take you to Main Page on certain browsers as it will assume these 2 resources are the same.

Comment 8 Jon 2013-07-27 15:30:36 UTC

*** Bug 52128 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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