1845706 - Refreshing Firefox View from any section will reset it to Recent browsing and reset the previous set page zoom

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1845485

(Firefox :: Firefox View, defect)

Description

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

Found in

• Firefox 117.0a1

Affected versions

• Firefox 117.0a1

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 13.5, WIndows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04

Preconditions

• browser.tabs.firefox-view-next is set to true

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox
2. Access Firefox View
3. Select for example History and zoom out the page to 50%
4. Refresh the page

Expected result

• The page is refreshed, with focus still on History and still zoomed out to 50%

Actual result

• The page will refresh, move its focus to Recent browsing and after a second refresh the zoom value resets to default.

Regression range

• No regression, new implementation

Additional notes

• The issue can be seen in the following attachment
• Selecting again the History page and refreshing once the page will zoom out the page to 50% and will focus again on Recent browsing.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

This was fixed by bug 1845485