1110562 - Tabs evicted under memory pressure load the URL that was first opened in the tab instead of the URL most recently loaded in that tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1044556

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Russell Haley]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141201111703

Steps to reproduce:

1. "Open in new tab" (henceforth called tab A), a paginated article or a piece of fanfiction or something.

2. Hit the next page link a few times, such that tab A has several URLs worth of history. Say you're on page 4 of a 6 page article. If you pressed back, tab A would show first page 3, then page 2, then page 1, then close the tab (I think).

3. Switch to another tab or app for a while, so that tab A is evicted from memory.

4. Switch back to Firefox + tab A.


Actual results:

Tab A shows page 1 of the paginiated article.


Expected results:

Tab A shows page 4 of the paginated article.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I can see how that would be annoying. Do you have example test-page? What is the behaviour on desktop Firefox? What do we persist?

Comment 2

[Russell Haley]

I have yet to see a page that doesn't do it. As far as I can tell, all that is necessary is that the tab have some history. I don't know how to create pristine profiles for testing on Android like you would on desktop, though, so it is possible that the problem is related to my configuration or add-ons (Bluhell firewall only).

The behavior cannot be observed on desktop Firefox, because desktop FF doesn't evict tabs under memory pressure.

Preferably, we should persist pretty much everything.  Ideal behavior is documented in bug 1110554.

Comment 3

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

I think this is a duplicate of bug 1044556.

Comment 4

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

(In reply to JanH from comment #3)
> I think this is a duplicate of bug 1044556.

Sounds about right.

Russell, feel free to let us know or reopen if you disagree.

Comment 5

[Russell Haley]

Yeah, that seems to be it.  I wouldn't call it "occasionally", though.  It seems to happen almost every time.  I've developed the habit of always opening links in new tabs unless it's just a single image or something.