1420278 - Toolbar popup doesn't properly switch to a new tab opened when the popup is closed

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[lkpost]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20171006080225

Steps to reproduce:

Use the following code snippet in a toolbar popup to simultaneously open a new tab and close the popup:

function openOptions() {
  browser.tabs.create({
    url: "/options/options.html"
  });
  window.close();
}

or

function openOptions() {
  browser.tabs.create({
    url: "/options/options.html"
  }).then(() => {
    window.close()
  });
}


Actual results:

The browser opened the new tab, closed the popup, and switched to the page active when the toolbar button was clicked


Expected results:

The browser opens the new tab, closed the popup, and switched to the new tab. This is also what happens on desktop Firefox.

Comment 1

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

[triage] Annoying, but non-critical as most add-ons are unlikely to take this approach. Susheel, please change priority if you disagree.

Comment 2

[:sdaswani]

(In reply to Michael Comella (:mcomella) [please needinfo for a response] from comment #1)
> [triage] Annoying, but non-critical as most add-ons are unlikely to take
> this approach. Susheel, please change priority if you disagree.

no disagreement.

Comment 3

[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