1715770 - Custom homepage/new tab stays open when opening container tabs

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(WebExtensions :: Developer Outreach, defect)

Description

[kylerm42]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

Pre-req:

• Set https://amazon.com to always open in a container tab

Scenario 1:

• Change homepage to https://google.com
• Open a new window, or click the "home" button
• Open https://amazon.com

Scenario 2:

• Install nightTab extension (or something similar that replaces the default new tab page) and enable it as the new tab page
• Open a new tab
• Open https://amazon.com

Actual results:

Amazon opened in a new container tab, separate from the home/new tab page we were on previously. We now have two tabs open.

Expected results:

The home/new tab page should have been replaced by the container tab, as it would happen if you are using the default. There should be only one tab open.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'WebExtensions::Untriaged' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I reproduced the issue on the latest Nightly (91.0a1/20210613214113), Beta (90.0b7/20210613190011) and Release (89.0/20210527174632) under Windows 10 x64 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Checked both scenarios using Firefox Multi-Account Containers and nightTab extensions. In both cases, the obtained results are as described in the report.

Comment 3

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Moved to https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2069