1463712 - session restored about:newtab tabs have no tab title

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1480118

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect, P4)

Description

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

Attachment: screen shot

I'm not sure if this always happens or only sometimes, but my STR are:

1. Have the "New tabs open blank page" and "Show my tabs from last time" options set in Preferences.
2. Open a few new tabs by pressing Cmd+T.
3. Notice that these tabs are showing a blank page, that Cmd+I shows that they are indeed about:blank, and that the tab itself shows the Firefox favicon and the text "New Tab".
4. Quit the browser and re-open it.
5. Notice that the session restored blank tabs are completely blank, i.e. have no favicon or tab title.

When mousing over these blank tabs, the tooltip is very small and empty.  See the attached screen shot (where the mouse cursor isn't showing, but you can see the tiny tool tip over the hovered tab.)

Clicking the tab appears to load about:blank, and so the tab title then updates to "New Tab".  But there is still no favicon (i.e. just like when you manually type about:blank into the address bar, rather than get a blank tab by pressing Cmd+T, which does get the favicon).

Comment 1

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Yup can reproduce this pretty easily