1273242 - hardware back button does not go back to the previous app if Firefox was opened from a link within this app

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[dnlrsnbrg]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4.2; Tablet; rv:46.0) Gecko/46.0 Firefox/46.0
Build ID: 20160502161457

Steps to reproduce:

From within an external app (like Google Search app) I clicked on a link which correctly opened Firefox. After reading the page I hit the back hardware back button.


Actual results:

Firefox closed and did not take me back to the previous app from which the link was opened. This happened on Android 6.0.1 on a Samsung S5 (upgraded recently from Android 5).


Expected results:

Hitting the hardware back button should have returned to the previous app (this still works under Android 5 on my tablet)

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This works for me using a Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F) running Android 5.0 and a Nexus 5p running Android N.

Comment 2

[dnlrsnbrg]

Is this a specific Android 6 problem then?
My Tablet running Android 4.4.2 doesn't have this behaviour.

Comment 3

[Zitronella]

I use Cyanogenmod (withoud google apps) and Android 6.0.1 and do not have this problem.

Comment 4

[dnlrsnbrg]

Then it seems to be a problem with the stock rom for the Samsung S5.

Comment 5

[Stefan Deiac]

Hi, I tested the issue with Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 8.0.0) and Lenovo A536 (Android 4.4.2) on latest Nightly and I couldn't  reproduce following the steps from description.
Can you retry on latest Nightly and see if the issue it's still reproducible?

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Closing per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Contact :susheel if you think this bug should be re-opened

Comment 7

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Clearing the needinfo request since this bug has been closed as INACTIVE for 8 years, 2 months and 29 days.

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