1401091 - Title of new tab not updated after redirect or location.replace when target page has no <title>

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

Description

[lilydjwg]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20170917100334

Steps to reproduce:

open https://www.google.com/ and search for a txt link (e.g. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt)

middle click that link to have it open in a new tab


Actual results:

The title of that tab says "google.com/url?sa=...".


Expected results:

The title of that tab should say "kernel.org/doc/...".

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

Regression range:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9f3f63f8acb7

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:
Regression of primary UI behaviour.

Comment 3

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

ni dao as assignee for bug 1364127

Comment 6

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

The title says kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for me in 58 with the STR in comment 0. 
Andrei, can your team still reproduce or does this look fixed to you too?
In any case, not a new regression, and I don't think we would uplift anything to 57 here.

Comment 7

[Emil Ghitta, QA [:emilghitta]]

Attachment: Nightly 58.png

Hi Liz!

I can still reproduce the issue mentioned in comment 0 using Firefox 58.0a1 (BuildId:20171009220104) on Windows 10 64bit, macOS 10.11.6 and Ubuntu 16.04 64bit.

Comment 8

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Move_fix-optionals

Comment 9

[Paul]

Curiously, the incorrect tab title survives Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Shift+R, and even clicking the URL bar and hitting Enter.

Conversely, there's no problem when you open the link in a new window.

Still affects Firefox 61.

Comment 15

[max]

(In reply to Paul from comment #9)

Curiously, the incorrect tab title survives Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Shift+R, and even
clicking the URL bar and hitting Enter.

Tab title with intermediate redirection URL survives even after navigation to other pages on the same site.

Firefox-88

Comment 16

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 7 duplicates.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

Comment 17

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

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.