Open Bug 1450774 Opened 6 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Blank tabs are left when DuckDuckGo !bangs result in a new container tab

Categories

(Core :: Security, defect)

59 Branch
defect

Tracking

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: j, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180323154952

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add YouTube.com to personal container.
2. Set YouTube to always open in Personal container.
3. Set default search engine to DuckDuckGo.
4. Input in Address Bar for `!yt NeedToBreathe`.
5. Hit enter


Actual results:

1. DNS resolution happens.
2. Redirect to YouTube happens.
3. New tab is opened in Personal container.
4. Original tab is left open, empty w/ `https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dneedtobreathe` in the Address Bar.


Expected results:

1. DNS resolution happens.
2. Redirect to YouTube happens.
3-A. Original tab is converted to Personal container.
3-B. New tab is opened in Personal container.
3-B-2. Original tab is closed.
I'm not certain if this is a Tabbed Browser issue or a Container issue. Please correct the component if this isn't the right one. Thanks..
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
Component: Tabbed Browser → Security
Product: Firefox → Core
Severity: normal → S3
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