1064925 - Don't surface redirect-only URLs in history

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Search, defect)

Description

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Often sites will redirect mobile urls immediately in content (meta redirect / js etc), these sites will sit in history and top sites, they wont ever have a screenshot or an icon and will have a duplicate entry that is the real site that was redirected to, we should probably try to not display these

Comment 1

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Brad, I vaguelly remember you saying android had this issue, any chance you could point me to somewhere / someone who may have an idea about a fix?

Comment 2

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

And to help STR, bbc.co.uk is an example here (forwards to m.bbc.co.uk)

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

See Bug 934702 and the bugs it blocks for the Android equivalent.

Desktop/places has a concept of visit type. That allows it to exclude some kinds of visited URLs from history.

There's a certain amount of heuristic processing that needs to be applied to catch in-content redirects versus, say, a user quickly tapping on a link. I'm not sure if docshell gives us that for free.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I have a patch in bug 949104 that tries to handle some of this problem. It doesn't handle JS/client-side redirects though.

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on