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The new Heap Walker is great and everything, but there is a serious usability problem: there are no navigation controls. Walking through a heap frequently involves navigating through multiple levels of references between objects. For example, if when examining an instance of a class I right-click on "this" and choose Find Nearest GC Root the Heap Walker will expand the tree in the references window. If I right-click one of the references in the expanded tree and choose Show Instance the Heap Walker will change the display so that I am seeing that object instance. But now, how do I get back to the object instance that I was looking at? This is pretty painful... seems like back and forward arrows would really help here.
Initial support for Back & Forward navigation in HeapWalker added for M10.
It seems that it is a duplicate of issue 100474
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