Open Bug 1844278 Opened 2 years ago

Investigate and simplify the Urlbarview needsNewContent boolean condition

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, task, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
task

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People

(Reporter: mak, Unassigned)

References

Details

This boolean is excessively complex:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/urlbar/UrlbarView.sys.mjs#1557

With the fix in Bug 1843100 it should be limited to things that may come from the same provider...
Even if actually long term it may even be better to stop reusing rows completely (apart from the heuristic, to avoid flickering selection). See Bug 1811829

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