1857297 - android: reader-mode resets on switching tabs

Status: NEW

(Fenix :: WebExtensions, defect, P2)

Description

[ilf]

Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Android 13, Firefox 117.1, NoScript 11.4.27 (enabled)

1. open tab, open https://www.spiegel.de/, click on any article, toggle reader mode
2. open new tab, open any website, example https://www.mozilla.org/
3. swich back to tab #1

Actual results:

tab remains in reader mode

Expected results:

tab refreshes in non-reader-mode, but still has reader-mode-icon enabled

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Reader Mode' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[jackyzy823]

I think it is site compatibility issue for spiegel.de with Reader Mode.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:jonalmeida, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

The Android team has not been keeping our P1 bug list up to date, so we're resetting all our P1 bugs to P2 to avoid signalling that we're actively working on bugs that we're not. The BMO documentation https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/UserGuide/BugFields#priority says P1 means "fix in the current release cycle" and P2 means "fix in the next release cycle or the following (nightly + 1 or nightly + 2)".

If you are actively working on this bug and expect to ship it in Fx 122 or 123, then please restore the priority back to P1.

Comment 5

[ilf]

This bug still exists. And it's not just on spiegel.de. I can reproduce it right now:

1. launch Fennec 129 (most current on F-Droid)
2. open nytimes.com, click any article, toggle reader-mode
3. open any site in new tab, like mozilla.org
4. go back to nytimes.com tab

expected result: tab remains in reader-mode
actual result: tab reloads content without reader-mode