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Status: Archived
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Closed: Aug 21
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Once an anchor has been visited, it cannot be "refreshed"

Reported by spa...@gmail.com, Jun 30 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Navigate to a page on an anchor such as https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd#Service_types
2. Scroll around a bit, enough to "get lost"
3. Try any, or all, of the following:
  (i)   Refresh with the UI button
  (ii)  Refresh with F5 or CTRL+R
  (iii) Refresh with CTRL+F5
  (iv)  Go to the URL bar and press return

Notice that it's not possible to "re-anchor".

What is the expected behavior?
(iii) or (iv) should probably re-anchor on the anchor. (i) and (ii) probably not, I guess.

What went wrong?
Some "feature" prevents users from "getting lost" if they refresh a page after scrolling from an anchor, but sadly this means that if you "get lost" for any reason, the quickest way to "get un-lost" is to open a new tab for the same URL (CTRL+L, ALT+RETURN). 

So essentially, there is no proper way to re-anchor on valid anchors, which reduces usability.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M59
Labels: M-61
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Able to reproduce the issue using 59.0.3071.115 Linux Ubuntu 14.04, Win 10, Mac 10.12.5 as well.

Observing the same behavior since M45. Hence considering this issue as Non-Regression issue and untriaging to get input's from dev.

Same behavior is seen in M61 as well.
 
Thanks!!
Status: Archived (was: Untriaged)
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over a year.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!

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