1562485 - Viewing bookmarks clears current page - no way to launch bookmarklets

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[jfield123s]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 9; Mobile; rv:67.0) Gecko/67.0 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

Visited Web page. Then viewed bookmark list by expanding hamburger menu in Firefox toolbar and selecting 'bookmarks'.

Actual results:

Bookmarks were shown. Address bar became blank. Using phone's back button reloaded page. Using bookmarklet javascript:alert(location.href) gave address starting about:home...

This is important because I have a bookmarklet that should save a web page as an epub. It does not work because loading the bookmarks list (to launch bookmarklet) clears the current location so it is never passed to the bookmarklet.

Expected results:

Address bar should have continued to show current page. This would allow bookmarklet to work.

Comment 1

[Eliza Balazs]

Hi and thank you for this report!

I tested this on Release 67.0.3, Beta 68.0b14, Nightly 68.0a1 (2019-06-28) with OnePlus 5T (Android 9) and I can reproduce the scenario from the Description.

This is the normal behavior of the app, because when you go to the Menu -> Bookmarks, you exist from the edit mode, so the address bar is cleared.
I will move this to enhancement. Thanks!

Comment 2

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