1636603 - Tab History or State broken/incorrect

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect, P4)

Description

[maxwellborden]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

Searched "webview library" in the title bar.
clicked first ddg result "https://github.com/zserge/webview"
clicked issues, I'm now at "https://github.com/zserge/webview/issues"
middle clicked refresh to open another copy of the tab

Actual results:

The tab that opens when I middle-click refresh is a different URL "https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=webview+library&ia=web"

Expected results:

middle click refresh usually opens the same page, "refreshes in a new tab" is how I treat it. I would expect the new tab to be at the url "https://github.com/zserge/webview/issues"

**** ALSO RELATED ****
The other issue is that when I close that tab and hit ctrl-shift-t it opens the same wrong URL, I can't close a bunch of tabs and re-open them because some are seemingly randomly on different pages then when they closed.

Comment 1

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

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Rachel Tublitz [:rachel]]

S1 or S2 bugs needs an assignee - could you find someone for this bug?

Comment 3

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop QA]

I can't seem to reproduce this using Firefox 76.0 RC on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit and the steps from comment 0. Is this still an issue for you using the latest Firefox release candidates build? (for me it does not reproduce using latest Fx 78.0 or latest Nightly as well)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

It's been a year, and without more information it is impossible to do anything here.