1407188 - About: pages do not show up in the URL bar in a tab opened through a homescreen shortcut

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Dan Jacobson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 7.0; Mobile; rv:58.0) Gecko/58.0 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171008131653

Steps to reproduce:

Visited about:config.


Actual results:

URL bar did not show that I was in about:config. Instead it didn't update itself.


Expected results:

Works in desktop, not in Mobile.

Comment 1

[Dan Jacobson]

The problem occurs when your first visit about:config.
If you return to about:config by the BACK button, then it will finally show up in the URL bar.

Comment 2

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

I tried
- opening a new tab, entering "about:config" and hitting enter, as well as
- taking an existing tab with some page open, entering "about:config" and hitting enter.

In both cases, the address in the URL bar updated just fine.

Comment 3

[Dan Jacobson]

Attachment: Screenshot_20171016-131501-270x480.jpg

Tried offline.

Comment 4

[Dan Jacobson]

Attachment: Screenshot_20171016-131420-270x480.jpg

Tried offline.

Comment 5

[Dan Jacobson]

By the way I entered the first few letters of about calling config into the URL bar but even though it was expanded upon RET it all disappeared as if I  didn't type anything.
.,

Comment 6

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Hmm, so in your case not just about:config specifically, but other about: pages as well.

Comment 7

[Dan Jacobson]

Yes.
Today I tested it some more.
I have a shortcut on my Android 7.0 Asus home screen. It calls Firefox on
http://m.jidanni.org/?C=M;O=D
Then if I type any of the about links I go to the link but the URL bar does not change. So maybe it has something to do with me using the shortcut from the home launcher page.

Comment 8

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

NI-ing myself in order to not forget about taking a look over this and trying to find some STR

Comment 9

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Device:
 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (Android 7.0)

Hello, 
I can reproduce the issue, STR:
 1. Add any page to the homescreen;
 2. Open Fennec from the newly created homescreen;
 3. Go to any about page.

Expected:
 The title shows what about: page you are visiting.

Actual:
 The title shows the link for the page opened from the homescreen.

Comment 10

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Attachment: log.txt

Here is the log file with the problem reproducing and a video showing the problem: https://goo.gl/8uZGJB

Comment 11

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Attachment: Bug 1407188 - Don't fail to send locationChange if the next URI has no host.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193374/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193374/

Comment 12

[Julian Chu [:walkingice]]

Comment on attachment 8922326 [details]
Bug 1407188 - Don't fail to send locationChange if the next URI has no host.

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193374/#review199912

Comment 13

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/58572829dd1e
Don't fail to send locationChange if the next URI has no host. r=walkingice

Comment 14

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/58572829dd1e

Comment 15

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Too late in the cycle to consider this for uplift to 57 IMO. Feel free to set the status back to affected and nominate it if you feel strongly otherwise, however.

Comment 16

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Verified in Nightly, the title for about: pages is now properly displayed in the URL bar.