Firefox does not add moz-extension:// URLs to browser history
Categories
(WebExtensions :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: CoolCmd, Unassigned)
References
(Regression)
Details
(Keywords: regression)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0
Steps to reproduce:
open a moz-extension:// page, for example, uBlock options.
Actual results:
moz-extension:// URL were not added to browser history.
Expected results:
moz-extension:// URL must be added to browser history. see bug 1314123. Chrome and previous Firefox versions add these URLs.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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I'm not sure I agree with bug 1314123, I have quite a few of these urls in my history, and they are totally unreadable and not understandable by the user. If they'd be nicer, like containing the add-on name or having a title maybe...
The add-on itself is supposed to make those urls available in nicer and more explicative UI parts, the history views are surely not the right place for them.
I'll leave the final decision to the add-ons team, but I think Bug 1658229 was the right choice.
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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Given an extension url in history, it's useless if the extension is uninstalled or disabled, and leads to other flaws such as mak mentioned and what was in bug 1658229. We've also essentially chosen most of the time to treat extension UI as being much closer to browser UI (e.g. about urls), which we do exclude from history. I think the fix was the right thing to do overall.
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