1177087 - Visited link style is not applied on redirected URLs on Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Lie Ryan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:38.0) Gecko/38.0 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150528015112
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

1. Test page in Firefox Mobile for Android (issue does not happen in desktop Firefox): https://jsfiddle.net/67jy5wzn/
2. Visit all links on the test page.


Actual results:

Link A and Link C turns green as expected. 
Link B and Link D stays blue, apparently because these links are immediately redirected to a different URL.


Expected results:

All links turns green, like in desktop Firefox.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Margaret, can you point this in the direction of someone who might know why history on fennec is different?

Comment 2

[Moin Shaikh]

I tried these steps and was able to reproduce it. 

Link A and Link C turns green when clicked, as expected.
The other don't.

[bugday-20150629]

Comment 3

[:Margaret Leibovic]

I think rnewman was the last person to touch this code.

We use our own GlobalHistory implementation:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/GlobalHistory.java

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

I think this might be working as desired. We don't record visits for pages that are immediately redirected: Bug 949104.

I have never heard a user complain about this, so I'm inclined to WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[Stefan Deiac]

Based on comment 4 I will mark this issue as WONTFIX. If the reporter or someone else want to reopen the issue, please feel to reopen it.