Browser "back" button doesn't scroll back from anchors in current page

Describe the bug

It’s a little easier to describe this bug with the reproduction, but the gist is that when you click a link with an anchor (e.g. <a href="#foo">), then click the browser’s back button, the page doesn’t scroll back to where you were before you clicked the anchor. Instead it just stays at the same scroll position as the target, although it does properly change the url hash.

Testing the behavior on other sites (e.g. any wikipedia page with a table of contents) confirms that the browser does normally remember your scroll position when navigating between anchor elements on the same page.

Reproduction

1. Go here as an example: https://sveltesaas.com/articles/sveltekit-github-pages-guide/
2. Scroll down and click the “Install SvelteKit” link in the Getting Started section. The page will properly scroll down to the correct section.
3. Click your browser’s “back” button. The URL will correctly change but the page will not scroll back to where you were before, as it usually does when navigating between anchors on the same page.

Logs

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System Info

Firefox 96.0.2 on Mac 12.1

Severity

annoyance

Additional Information

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[vicky1999]

Can I work on this issue?

[benmccann]

I believe this is fixed now. @Glench can you upgrade to the latest version and test it out? Let me know if it’s still present or if it has resolved for you