5.9.7 - Browser BACK Button - Unexpected Behavior per Confluence Link?

Stephen Kairys_keaglp

Confluence 5.9.7 - Win10  - Chrome

Does Confluence not properly support my browser's BACK button when I click on a link to an anchor? i ask b/c of the following behavior. To the best of my knowledge the following occurred:

1) Made a change to the page.
2) Saved.
3) Scrolled down to a portion of the doc containing a link. Call this place "X".
4) I clicked on a link to an anchor.
5) I was taken to the correct place on the page.
6) I clicked the BACK button.
7) Instead of being taken back to X it appears I was taken back into EDIT mode.

8) I saved the page.
9) A warning came up, saying that the changes could not be merged. It stated that various types of modifications (changes, formatting changes, and deletions) would be highlighted in different colors.
10) When I glanced through the doc, I did not see any such highlighting.
11) I clicked the Overwrite (not Save) button in the lower right.
12) My most recent change was lost.  

I see two issues:

• Per Step 7: The BACK button should take me to the previous place in the doc, and certainly not back into edit mode, which is dangerous, as is evident by my second bullet point below.
• Per Steps 9 - 12: Behavior that ultimately lost changes.

Has anyone seen the above behavior? Does it sound like a bug?

Thanks,

Steve

 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

On point 7, it's because you have not left the page - the browser is not recognising the anchor as a new url, it's stayed on the same page.  The last change of url was from Edit mode to View, so the back button picks up the previous url - the edit page.

9-12 is a consequence of 7 - your changes are staying in the session when the browser lands you in the wrong place.

There's not actually a lot you can do about this - Confluence can't tell your browser that a standard anchor link is to be treated as a new page.