1448729 - new tab page should be labeled "New Tab", not "Firefox Home"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Will]

Attachment: fffatvntprb.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180315233128

Steps to reproduce:

in Firefox for Android, new tabs are labeled "Firefox Home". This should be changed to "New Tab" for consistency, familiarity and clarity. In Firefox for Desktop, new tabs are labeled "New Tab". Also, in Firefox for Android, when you tap the menu, the option says "New Tab", so new tabs should be labeled as "New Tab", not "Firefox Home"

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

If you were to tap on the tab it takes you to about:home the Firefox for Android home page. It provides access to several views of your browsing history. Firefox for Android is not the same product as desktop and has different UI decisions.

Comment 2

[Will]

I didn't think it's an actual 'bug' or mistake, I'm just asking yous to please consider changing it. When I first started using Firefox for Android, when I would go to that tab screen I kept thinking new tabs were the Firefox website homepage...