1744892 - the Firefox Accounts website loads twice when clicking the avatar on the right corner of the "about:logins" page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Firefox Accounts, defect, P5)

Description

[thinking962]

Attachment: Screen Recording 2021-12-08 at 11.27.29 AM.mov

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.55 Safari/537.36

[Affected versions]:

• 94.0.2, 95.0

[Affected Platforms]:

• macOS 10.13.6
• macOS 10.15.7

[Prerequisites]:

• Have a valid FxA account.

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Open the Firefox browser with the profile from prerequisites.
2. Navigate to "about:logins" page.
3. Click the avatar on the right corner of the "about:logins" page.
4. Observe the Firefox Accounts website opens on another tab and loads once.
5. Go back to the "about:logins" page.
6. Click the avatar on the right corner of the "about:logins" page again.
7. Observe the Firefox Accounts website.

[Actual results]:

The Firefox Accounts website loads twice.

[Expected results]:

The Firefox Accounts website only loads once.

Comment 1

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

Same behavior when using Firefox account icon > "Manage account" in address bar. Firefox account tab activated and reloaded.

While it is a minor annoyance, it's best to reload that page to keep information fresh.

Moving to Firefox Account so they can triage it.

Comment 2

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

No idea why this happens, but we end up calling switchToTabHavingURI, which is very commonly used to open tabs. The impact is so low that I don't see us getting to it any time soon (although maybe it will be fixed independently if the behaviour is noticed in other contexts)

Comment 3

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

Managed to reproduce this on macOS 11.6, Windows 10 x64 and on Ubuntu 20.04 x64.

Comment 4

[Danny Coates [:dcoates]]

Thanks for filing. This isn't on our roadmap to fix.