1261766 - History tab behavior is faulty when re-orientating the device

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1261760

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[u549602]

Environment: Nightly
Device: Sony Xperia z2 (Android 5.0.2);
Build: Nightly 48.0a1 (2016-04-03);

Steps to reproduce:
1. Hold device in landscape and view populated history tab
2. Open a new tab and visit a new page
3. Go to the previous tab (from step 1)
4. Switch device's orientation from landscape to portrait

Expected result:
At step 3 : History tab should show the newly visited page along with the previous ones
At step 4 : History tab should show the same history as at step 3 

Actual result:
At step 3: History tab is empty, or not updated with the correct information
At step 4: History tab is correctly populated and displayed after a device orientation change 

Notes: 
Please note that this issue occurs on both Tablet and Phone devices and on all Android versions
 For further details please check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nbOFf-cMQg&feature=youtu.be

This issue occurs on the Nightly build with a clean account, if a previous sync action was performed, the issue is not reproducible

Comment 1

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Mihai, please cc me on these Combined History bugs so I can prioritize seeing them - thanks! Also, block them to the home-panels metabug.

Comment 2

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Same comment as bug 1261760, we should have a smaller-scoped meta bug to track all the regressions in 48.