bug#69232: 30.0.50; [PATCH] EWW history navigation gets caught in a loop

[Jim Porter]

On 2/19/2024 4:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a bug fix, and I think this behavior change does
> need a NEWS entry.

Ok, I added one.

> And have sure you are that no one will want the current behavior?

Well, I suppose I can't prove that there's no one who likes the current 
behavior. I'd be pretty surprised though, since I've never seen a 
browser that manages back/forward navigation like this.

In *theory*, a person might be able to (ab)use this to track changes to 
a given page across refreshes, but that doesn't work consistently, since 
EWW doesn't always add a new history entry upon reloading. Given that 
you have to jump through some hoops to trigger this behavior (for 
example, this doesn't work if you're at a new page not in 'eww-history' 
yet), I doubt anyone has noticed that this is possible. On the off 
chance that someone wants a feature like that, I think we could do it in 
a better way, anyway.

If you're still concerned that someone might prefer the current 
behavior, I could announce the change to emacs-devel after (or before) 
it merges in order to give people an opportunity to speak up.

0001-When-navigating-through-history-in-EWW-don-t-keep-ad.patch
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