1628363 - No document.referrer in PWA projects

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[carneironline]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Currently in firefox when I try to reproduce the document.referrer on pwa sites, the empty value is returned, such as:

Google the word glamour

Access any of the latest news from "glamour Magazine"

The only browser I am seeing this occurring is in the latest versions of firefox.

Actual results:

On the console display

document.referrer
""

Expected results:

On the console display

document.referrer
"https://www.google.com/"

Comment 1

[carneironline]

Attachment: Captura de tela de 2020-04-08 11-49-54.png

Comment 2

[carneironline]

Attachment: Captura de tela de 2020-04-08 11-51-36.png

Comment 3

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

Marcos, do you know what's up here? Thank you.

Comment 4

[Marcos Caceres [:marcosc]]

I don't, sorry - also just noting from the screenshots above that it seems that's just a regular web site (i.e., navigating from Google -> Glamour, not particularly a PWA issue).

I checked in Nightly and in Stable and was not able to reproduce by going to "revista glamour" (https://revistaglamour.globo.com/) ... the referrer is correct (google).

Anne, do you know of any situation whereby the referrer would become ""?

Comment 5

[Anne (:annevk)]

carneironline, if you go to about:config, click through the warning and search for "referer", are any of the options displayed in bold?

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

A needinfo is requested from the reporter, however, the reporter is inactive on Bugzilla. Closing the bug as incomplete.

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