1219652 - URL bar not updating whilst browsing new web pages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

iPhone 6, version 1.1 (1113), running 9.1 (13B143)

I have two tabs open. One of them I originally went to the bbc.co.uk from my Top Sites thumbnail. It renders the mobile site. I tapped on 'news' and then 'most read'. I went to an article (www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34658759). After reading it, I swiped back to 'most read' list and tapped on another article (likely a few more). It was late at night, wasn't paying attention, put the phone down.

In the morning, I tapped on Firefox to bring it up, had the tab open (previous session) that was still sitting on another article from the BBC and that's when I realized that the URL bar wasn't reflecting the article it was actually displaying. I stayed in the bbc domain, went back to bbc.co.uk/news, tapped on another article, and the URL bar still isn't updating. 

I tapped on the URL bar and hit 'go' on my keyboard and it did, indeed, load up that original political article. I am still able to navigate to other articles, open them up, read - but the URL bar isn't updating.

If I tap 'share' from the share sheet, the correct article ID will be shared (for the article I've landed on, not what's in the URL bar). If I add the article to my bookmarks, the correct article is bookmarked.

After closing out my tabs and starting a new tab session, things seemed to have kicked in properly again.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

>  It was late at night, wasn't paying attention, put the phone down. In the morning ...

Another WebContent (overnight) crash and then a mismatch?

Comment 2

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

that was my initial thinking, however I know I didn't fall asleep with the political article as the 'last' article - I fell asleep 2 articles later, so it got stuck before the 'overnight' happened.

Comment 3

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

I thought this had something to do with this code path;

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/blob/master/Client/Frontend/Browser/BrowserViewController.swift#L1391

But now I am not so sure.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Is this still an issue?

Comment 5

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

I haven't seen it in a long while, so let's close this out and I can re-open if I see it again.