1246202 - (newtab-fallback) Fallback for remote about:newtab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Franziskus Kiefer [:franziskus]]

In case the integrity of the remote about:newtab page can not be verified the page load fails and about:blank is loaded. To make UX better a locally hosted version of about:newtab should be loaded.

Comment 1

[Olivier Yiptong [:oyiptong]]

How about we add another entry in NewTabRemoteResources, perhaps with a key of 'localFallback': https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/newtab/NewTabRemoteResources.jsm

Should the document fail to load, we'll load the localFallback location. Perhaps this location can be "about:newtab" for now?

Comment 2

[Olivier Yiptong [:oyiptong]]

Actually, that won't work. Can we change the document URL to about:newtab and LOAD_NORMAL with a resource:// url?

Otherwise we'll need to load "about:newtab" and find a way to turn off "remote" mode for only one load in aboutRedirector.cpp

Comment 3

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

Hi Henry,

Do we have any progress or plan on this bug?
It seems you told me something beforehand but my memory is vague.

Comment 4

[Henry Chang [:hchang]]

(In reply to Ethan Tseng [:ethan] from comment #3)
> Hi Henry,
> 
> Do we have any progress or plan on this bug?
> It seems you told me something beforehand but my memory is vague.

Nope. From what I was told by Olivier, Firefox team would like to implement other remote pages (e.g. remote:home) and the fallback page might also be used by those remote pages. So, it becomes a general feature but not just for remote:newtab.

Comment 5

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

(In reply to Henry Chang [:henry][:hchang] from comment #4)
> Nope. From what I was told by Olivier, Firefox team would like to implement
> other remote pages (e.g. remote:home) and the fallback page might also be
> used by those remote pages. So, it becomes a general feature but not just
> for remote:newtab.

Hi Olivier,
If so, what should we do with this bug?
Any idea?

Comment 6

[Henry Chang [:hchang]]

The most important thing is we require a design for different fallback pages according to the remote pages. Probably we need the time frame of remote:newtab and remote:home (and so on) to decide when it's time to go.