[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#717264: chromium: activating back button does not redraw previous page

[Nils Dagsson Moskopp]

Package: chromium
Version: 25.0.1364.160-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I wrote my own microblog, which outputs a static HTML site from files in a Git repository using the Bourne Shell and DJB redo. Then I did the following things:

1. Visit the home page of the blog <http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/>
2. Go to the page for the first entry (link is the date string).
3. Activate the back button.

While the URL changed, no redraw occured. I expected the back button to not only change the URL but also redraw the previously visited page.

Further testing gave that the expected behaviour occurs when the first page is scrolled down a bit before navigating to the second page and navigating back.

A workaround is to activate the reload button.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector  25.0.1364.160-1
ii  gconf-service       3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libasound2          1.0.27.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.8.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.6-4
ii  libc6               2.17-3
ii  libcairo2           1.12.14-4
ii  libcups2            1.5.3-5
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.12-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5      2.0.21-stable-1
ii  libexpat1           2.1.0-3
ii  libflac8            1.3.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1      2.10.2-2
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgconf-2-4        3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.2-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.36.3-3
ii  libgnome-keyring0   3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libjpeg8            8d-1
ii  libnspr4            2:4.10-1
ii  libnss3             2:3.15-1
ii  libnss3-1d          2:3.15-1
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libpulse0           2.0-6.1
ii  libspeex1           1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-5
ii  libudev0            175-7.2
ii  libvpx1             1.2.0-2
ii  libx11-6            2:1.6.0-1
ii  libxcomposite1      1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxfixes3          1:5.0-4+deb7u1
ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
ii  libxrandr2          2:1.3.2-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-14.1
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils           1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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