diff --git a/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml b/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml
index 33bb5d4f0a9..3d05da187c2 100644
--- a/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml
+++ b/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml
@@ -622,6 +622,14 @@
             if (aTopic != "browser:purge-session-history")
               return;
               
+            // place the entry at current index at the end of the history list, so it won't get removed
+            if (this.sessionHistory.index < this.sessionHistory.count - 1) {
+              var indexEntry = this.sessionHistory.getEntryAtIndex(this.sessionHistory.index, false);
+              this.sessionHistory.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsISHistoryInternal);
+              indexEntry.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsISHEntry);
+              this.sessionHistory.addEntry(indexEntry, true);
+            }
+            
             var purge = this.sessionHistory.count;
             if (this.currentURI != "about:blank")
               --purge; // Don't remove the page the user's staring at from shistory