1186897 - Launching a bookmark from homescreen does not always reuse existing window.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System::Task Manager, defect)

Description

[Thinker Li [:sinker]]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:42.0) Gecko/42.0 Firefox/42.0

If there is a openning window for a bookmark on the homescreen, people would expect to show the same window for next time launching the same bookmark.

But, if you follow a link to another page of the same site, it would open a new window for the next time launching the same bookmark.  User may expect to reload the URL of the bookmark with the same window.

Comment 1

[Peter Bylenga [:PBylenga]]

Flagging UX to review.  If you don't navigate to a new page after opening a bookmark it'll re-use the same window from first launch, comment 0 only occurs if you navigate away from the page that was bookmarked.

Comment 2

[Tiffanie Shakespeare [:tif]]

Seems like the behaviour is inconsistent. NI Francis to take a look.

Comment 3

[Gregor Wagner [:gwagner]]

UX ping

Comment 4

[Tiffanie Shakespeare [:tif]]

re-adding NI for UX triage. Sorry for the delay!

Gregor please feel free to use that liberally :)

Comment 5

[Elizabeth Hunt[:ezoehunt]]

Peter is correct. This is the expected behavior. 

If you open a bookmarked (pinned) URL and leave that tab open, tapping the bookmark (pin) again will re-use the existing open tab. 

If you open a bookmarked (pinned) URL and then navigate to a different internal URL, tapping the bookmark (pin) again will open a new tab for the bookmark URL.

Thanks for pinging the UX team!

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on