1563254 - URLBar should be clear or selected when homepage opened with override

Status: NEW

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[dev]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.80 Safari/537.36 OPR/62.0.3331.18

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install an extension that replaces the default homepage, for example:
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yet-another-speed-dial/

2. Restart firefox.

Actual results:

1. The address bar is filled with the extension's raw address, and is not focused.
2. If the user subsequently goes to the homepage (ex by clicking the 'home' toolbar button), the address bar is correctly focused and empty.

Expected results:

1. The address bar should be blank and focused, to facilitate search or navigation (as is the case with the default home page, new tabs, or when manually navigating to the overriden homepage via the home button).

The bug seems to be triggered when an extension overrides the default home page via the "chrome_settings_overrides" manifest key.

See also:
Bug 1372996 which was a similar same issue but for new tab override.

Comment 1

[Alex Cornestean]

Attachment: WIN Release extension.gif

Comment 2

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

This could be reproduced using the specified repro steps on:

• WIN 64-bit with Nightly 70.0a1 (20190709153742), Beta 69.0b3 (20190708182549) and Release 68.0 (20190705220548)

• MACos High Sierra 10.13.6 with Nightly version 70.0a1 (20190709153742), Beta 69.0b3 (20190708182549) and Release 68.0 (20190705220548). On Nightly version 70.0a1 Build ID: 20190709095414 it only occurs after a second browser restart.

• Ubuntu with Beta 69.0b3 (20190708182549) and Release 68.0 (20190705220548)

However, it could not be reproduced on Ubuntu Nightly 70.0a1 (20190709095414) or Ubuntu Nightly 70.0a1 (20190709153742) .

See GIF.

Comment 3

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

This only happens for me on startup. Opening a new window will correctly clear the address bar.

Comment 4

[Alex Cornestean]

Yes, you are correct. It usually happens only on browser startup, after the extension is installed. When opening a new tab in that browser the extension's raw address won't be shown anymore.

Sorry for the confusion, and thank you for remarking on that.

Comment 5

[dev]

well, its been a year and still happens :(

any news?