1222423 - "Request Desktop Site" feature should use the last user initiated location change and not just reload current address with desktop mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1027143

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

Some pages switch between mobile and desktop mode using redirects, it seems.  An example is the Huawei mobile hotspot administration interface.

When I use Firefox for Android, I have the following interaction:

1. type in 192.168.8.1
2. router redirects me to 192.168.8.1/html/small/index.html
3. i select "Request Desktop Site"
4. firefox for android loads http://192.168.8.1/html/small/index.html in desktop mode

The result is that my page never actually switches to the desktop mode until I re-enter my URL (192.168.8.1), at which point I get to the desktop interface.

What I expect to happen is:

1. type in 192.168.8.1
2. router redirects me to http://192.168.8.1/html/small/index.html
3. i select "Request Desktop Site"
4. firefox for android loads 192.168.8.1 in desktop mode
5. router admin page redirects me to http://192.168.8.1/html/index.html


What would be really good is if the "Request Desktop Site" feature reloaded the page using the last *user* initiated location (i.e. location bar entry or clicking a link) change instead of the contents of the URL bar.

Comment 1

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

We already do this for HTTP redirects, but there are some cases that don't work (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027143#c4).