1184469 - [Feature request] Switch to an already open webpage, when you don't type the full URL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo] - On PTO - Back on July 28th]

STR
1. Open a website (like mozilla.org) thanks to the rocketbar
2. Go to homescreen.
3. On the rocketbar, go to mozilla.org again.

Expected results
Like on Firefox Desktop, I should be brought to the webpage I just opened.

Actual results
A new window is open. If you go to the task switcher, you're able to see the 2 identical pages open.

Build info
Build ID               20150713103207
Gaia Revision          a7439b6ca88264734171ff5ea0b6a0b8df3f258e
Gaia Date              2015-07-12 17:48:25
Gecko Revision         https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/38d03bf4616e
Gecko Version          42.0a1
Device Name            aries
Firmware(Release)      4.4.2
Firmware(Incremental)  eng.worker.20150619.224059
Firmware Date          Fri Jun 19 22:41:08 UTC 2015
Bootloader             s1

Comment 1

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo] - On PTO - Back on July 28th]

Having this feature would enable users to save money and bring Firefox OS closer to our biggest product.

Comment 2

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

Francis, what's your take on this?

Comment 3

[Francis Djabri [:djabber]]

If the user enters a URL that's already open, I agree that the user should switch to that open window and not open a new window.

Comment 4

[Alberto Pastor [:albertopq]]

This should already happen for these cases:

1.- Opening a webpage with the same domain of a pinned site.
2.- Opening the same exact url that is already open

I think what's happening here is that the url changes when accessing a domain (google.com redirects to www.google.com, for example), and then when typing the same domain in the rocketbar doesn't find that URL.

May be we can try to be more clever here, but is not an easy topic.

That said, I think there is a bug currently that makes this not work properly all the time at the moment.

Johan, could you please confirm if entering the same exact path (the one that remains in the page after loading) twice reopens the previous window?

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo] - On PTO - Back on July 28th]

(In reply to Alberto Pastor [:albertopq] from comment #4)
> This should already happen for these cases:
> 
> 1.- Opening a webpage with the same domain of a pinned site.
> 2.- Opening the same exact url that is already open

#2 works correctly. If I enter the exact URL, the old window is brought back. Changing the bug title.

I couldn't get #1 working. Here's what I tried:
* type "www.mozilla.org" => You get redirected to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
* tap home button and rocket bar again => see "www.mozilla.org"
* on the keyboard, tap enter => KO, a new window is open.

> that the url changes when accessing a domain (google.com redirects to www.google.com, for example)
I confirm. In my example, mozilla.org redirects to www.mozilla.org, which redirects to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/.

Build ID               20151125125652
Gaia Revision          9eca89f04628c99226e0d18c15d5ae11b71af0cf
Gaia Date              2015-11-25 06:47:04
Gecko Revision         https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1835baed2a38429a3cc301d21778a113d3a9e7d8
Gecko Version          45.0a1
Device Name            aries
Firmware(Release)      4.4.2
Firmware(Incremental)  eng.worker.20151125.121409
Firmware Date          Wed Nov 25 12:14:19 UTC 2015
Bootloader             s1

Comment 6

[Alberto Pastor [:albertopq]]

Johan, with #1 I meant, opening the same domain after *pinning* the site (using pinning the web), so the STR you added won't work.

I'm not sure we can easily guess that www.mozilla.org and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ is the same window.
Top level domains, root paths, etc... are options that work in some cases but break others.

Anyway, I think is a reasonable feature request and we should try to find a way to do it.

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on