1874253 - Loading the obsolete about:firefoxview-next doesnt show the malformed URI error page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Firefox View, defect, P1)

Description

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him) out until 2024-05-26]

Usually, a non-existent about: page like about:nosuchpage results in the "Hmm. That address doesnt look right" error page. But if I open a tab with the now non-existent about:firefoxview-next, I got nothing. No exceptions logged, no new tab content - it just accepts my input and does nothing.

STR:

• In a new tab, type about:firefoxview-next in the address bar

ER:

• A error page is shown, indicating this is an invalid page/URL

AR:

• Nothing happens

Comment 1

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him) out until 2024-05-26]

Possibly this is caused by removing the firefoxview-next redirector, but leaving the component in browser/components/about/components.conf?

Comment 2

[Sarah Clements [:sclements]]

(In reply to Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him) from comment #1)

Possibly this is caused by removing the firefoxview-next redirector, but leaving the component in browser/components/about/components.conf?

It looks like that's Nika's hypothesis as well, based on this comment here. We should remove about:firefoxview-next from the static component manager here.

Comment 3

[Sarah Clements [:sclements]]

Nikki's has removed that in the components.conf in bug 1869836, so we might be able to close this bug out when that lands.

Comment 4

[Nikki Sharpley (:nikkis) (she/her)]

Attachment: Bug 1874253 - Remove firefoxview-next from static components manager r=#fxview-reviewers

We have previously updated the AboutRedirector from about:firefoxview-next to about:firefoxview.
firefoxview-next no longer exists, so has been removed from the static components manager.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6d144598ab23
Remove firefoxview-next from static components manager r=fxview-reviewers,sclements

Comment 6

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6d144598ab23

Comment 7

[Giorgia Nichita, Release Desktop QA]

Reproduced this issue on an affected Nightly build from 2024-01-11, on Win 10.
Verified as fixed on Firefox 123.0b2 (20240124102023) across the following platforms: Win 10, Ubuntu 22 and macOS 10.15. An error indicating this is an invalid page/URL appears on the about:firefoxview-next page.