Browser Forward button not enabled

[efortuna]

Describe the bug
You can use the back button to step to the previous page in your Flutter app, but after pressing "back" the "forward" button does not become enabled on my browser.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Open the Flutter Gallery app in your browser. Tap to navigate to any page. For example, "Style", then "colors". Hit the back button. The forward button does not become enabled after navigating to the new page.

Expected behavior
A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.
I expect the forward button to become enabled after I navigate to the previous page.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: mac
• Browser Chrome 73.0.3683.86
• Dart Version 2.2.1-dev.2.0.flutter-None on "macos_x64"
• Flutter Web commit SHA: 04e53468fd60f6d7613a0745fba2dc14eac676c9

[yjbanov]

This will be a new framework feature. Flutter was designed for native mobile where there's no such thing as "forward".

[kevmoo]

We should prioritize this. We could certainly put in a forward stack to go along w/ the back stack. This is pretty core to how folks expect the web to work.

[yjbanov]

After chatting briefly with @mdebbar we decided that this will be orders of magnitude easier to fix after we unfork the project.

[Levi-Lesches]

Any updates on this?

[mahmoudsalah37]

i have same issue
[√] Flutter (Channel beta, 1.18.0-11.1.pre, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.836], locale en-US)
• Flutter version 1.18.0-11.1.pre at C:\flutter\flutter
• Framework revision 2738a11 (3 weeks ago), 2020-05-13 15:24:36 -0700
• Engine revision ef9215ceb2
• Dart version 2.9.0 (build 2.9.0-8.2.beta)

[!] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 28.0.3)
• Android SDK at C:\flutter\sdk
• Platform android-28, build-tools 28.0.3
• ANDROID_HOME = C:\flutter\sdk
• Java binary at: C:\flutter\android-studio\jre\bin\java
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b01)
X Android license status unknown.
Try re-installing or updating your Android SDK Manager.
See https://developer.android.com/studio/#downloads or visit visit https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/windows#android-setup for detailed
instructions.

[√] Chrome - develop for the web
• Chrome at C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

[√] Android Studio (version 3.3)
• Android Studio at C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio
• Flutter plugin version 34.0.1
• Dart plugin version 182.5215
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-1248-b01)

[√] Android Studio (version 3.5)
• Android Studio at C:\flutter\android-studio
• Flutter plugin version 34.0.4
• Dart plugin version 191.6183.88
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b01)

[√] VS Code (version 1.45.1)
• VS Code at C:\Users\Mahmoud salah eldin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code
• Flutter extension version 3.11.0

[√] Connected device (2 available)
• Web Server • web-server • web-javascript • Flutter Tools
• Chrome • chrome • web-javascript • Google Chrome 83.0.4103.97

[sujithkanna]

Hi, any update on this?

[12people]

@yjbanov Why was this labeled as P5 instead of P4?

This is a pretty serious UX issue, as people have come to expect their browser forward button to work on all websites.

Rather than treating it as a nice-to-have feature request, I'd like this to be treated with the severity of a bug, at the very least. A UX bug is still a bug.

[Akashmathwani]

It's been pending since a long time. Any ETA for this ?

[ochmist]

Anything on this?

[ch-muhammad-adil]

Hi, Any update on this?

[ghost]

Flutter cannot be used as a web page until this bug is fixed.
I would appreciate it if you could correct it.

[chunhtai]

This issue should be fixed if you use Router widget, see #63424

[steeling]

FYI might want to update the FAQ's that say this is not ready

https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-integration/web#how-are-forward-and-backward-buttons-presented-in-the-web-ui

[chunhtai]

open this issue to keep track doc update

[mariamhas]

assigning to myself, already working on updating FAQs and this specific question

[mariamhas]

docs updated

[jpv123]

For me, this issue is still not closed. Some of us want to use Navigator 1.0 for the web with the onGenerateRoute, onUnknownRoute, and routes param. This is because Navigator 2.0 can be extremely difficult to implement in some cases

However, using the Navigator 1.0 approach (which is supposed to be supported and not deprecated), the forward button is still not enabled which is a serious UX problem.

Do we know if there is any workaround besides using Navigator 2.0?

[chunhtai]

There is no planed work to support the forward button in nav 1, and I doubt we will spend time doing it in the future. Our current plan is to improve the usability of nav 2. See https://github.com/flutter/uxr/wiki/Navigator-2.0-API-Usability-Research

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