1602235 - about:home and about:newtab have different zoom levels even when both are configured for home and new tabs, respectively

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P2)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I have my new tab page zoomed to 120% by default but when I first open Firefox the first new tab page shows at normal size. Opening a new one shows the correct zoom level.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Just to make sure, if you cmd-I page info, does it show about:home or about:newtab? The first "new tab" of a window is likely to be about:home, which could have a different zoom level. I suppose arguably new windows could open about:newtab instead -- or we set the home page to about:newtab instead of about:home.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Ah you're right, that is what is causing this issue. To me though I see no material difference between the first new tab I see when opening Firefox and subsequent new tabs so I'm of the opinion that they should behave the same. Is there actually any difference at this point?

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

There were discussions previously to treat them differently as I believe stories had much higher click through rates on about:home vs about:newtab. Currently, I think the only difference is not user facing -- various telemetry for the page and search.