[Bug 17093] Step 25 - we (Opera) would prefer to follow WebKit and not add a new history position when doing document.open. The utility of this to users is questionable since many cases where it is used the content of the document before document.open is not useful (

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17093

--- Comment #3 from Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> 2012-05-31 00:28:13 UTC ---
IE has the same behavior as Opera as far as I can tell.  When doing
document.open on an initial about:blank document no SHEntry is added, and when
doing it in other cases one is added.  I'll attach a testcase that can be used
to test this.

I would be fine with switching Gecko to the current IE/Opera behavior in the
medium term (and in fact I have wanted to do so in the past, but it's been
stymied by Gecko not having a good concept of "initial about:blank" yet; we're
working on that, though).

We got a number of bug reports about not being able to go back and forward
across document.open before we implemented our current behavior, iirc, but this
was a while ago.

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