Closed Bug 1064925 Opened 10 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Don't surface redirect-only URLs in history

Categories

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

All
Gonk (Firefox OS)
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: daleharvey, Unassigned)

References

Details

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
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?
Flags: needinfo?(blassey.bugs)
And to help STR, bbc.co.uk is an example here (forwards to m.bbc.co.uk)
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.
Flags: needinfo?(blassey.bugs)
Summary: Dont surface redirect only urls in history → Don't surface redirect-only URLs in history
I have a patch in bug 949104 that tries to handle some of this problem. It doesn't handle JS/client-side redirects though.
OS: Mac OS X → Gonk (Firefox OS)
Hardware: x86 → All
See Also: → 934702
Firefox OS is not being worked on
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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