1439513 - about:home is blank when using picture in picture

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

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

Attachment: blank.mp4

Device:
 - Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 7.0);
 - Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (Android 7.0);
 - Samsung Galaxy S6 (Android 7.0).

Steps to reproduce:
 1. Open FF and any other random application;
 2. Tap on the app view drawer button;
 3. Tap on the split screen option for the other app;
 4. Tap on FF;
 5. Open the split screen options from the middle line and select the window in window option.

Expected result:
 about:home is being displayed.

Actual result:
 A blank page is displayed in the about:home section.

Notes:
 Opening a new about:home page or closing all of the tabs does not fix the problem.
 If you have any other page opened it is properly displayed and not replaced with a blank page, also about:home is displayed when opening a new tab in this scenario.

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.