There you have it. The official statement from the Chrome (world's most used) Browser team,
I believe pages like this need to do some work
They are saying that Wikipedia pages need more work to properly go BACK in Chrome browser .
As to the exact amount of pages, and what work needs to be done. That is all over my head.
I am just relaying their official statement which you should please read for the details. Thanks.
@Jidanni: As requested before, please do follow the scheme on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug when creating tickets here. Wikimedia Phabricator is not some forum to drop drive-by comments... If it is somehow not possible to create helpful and actionable bug reports with sufficient information, then I'd suggest that you may want to spend your time somewhere else. Thanks for your understanding.
In different words: "Someone please read something on some other website" is not a bug report. :) Please bring up and discuss such things first in (technical) venues (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech, mailing lists, IRC, etc) to sort out actionable parts and get potential items in shape for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug . Thanks a lot.
There is a good structured bug report in the initial comment at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1038183#c0 in the format that is also expected here in Wikimedia Phabricator.
There is a comment in https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1038183#c8 which provides some basics what needs to be done.
Both could have been initially copied and pasted into this ticket in Wikimedia Phabricator. I don't understand why this was not done by the reporter, basically.
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What is the expected behavior?
We should be back in the F area.
What went wrong?
We are sent back to the A area and we have to scroll all the way back down to figure out where we were reading.
I believe pages like this need to do some work to make restoration work correctly and use the history.scrollRestoration API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/scrollRestoration
There isn't much we can do on the browser-side.
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We are sent back to the A area and we have to scroll all the way back down to figure out where we were reading.
Not here when using https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias on desktop Chromium and its back button. (No phone here with "back buttons".)
and use the history.scrollRestoration API
That's for web applications instead.