1909524 - All 3-dot-menus appear and then immediately fade away on shortcut tiles, after shift+reload on new-tab page

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STR:

1. Open a new tab.
2. Hold shift and click the reload button (or do Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + R) to trigger a "hard refresh"
3. Watch the area directly above the square "shortcut tiles" as the reload occurs.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
The 3-dot-menus for each shortcut tile briefly appear and then fade out as the reload happens.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
No such 3-dot-menus appearing; they're only supposed to show up when you hover the tile.

mozregression says this is a regression from bug 1859350. This is probably related to bug 1868232 which was a regression from that same bug, and was also a "content briefly/unintentionally appearing after a reload and then animating away" sort of issue. We probably want a similar sort of fix here.

Comment 1

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

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1859350

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screencast showing the bug in Nightly 2024-01-10

Here's a screencast showing the bug in Nightly 2024-01-10, where the 3-dot-menus are all clearly visible for a moment after I reload.

(In current Nightly, it's worse than what's shown here, because there are more things that are moving around at the same time, beyond just these 3-dot-menus. I'm going to file a separate bug on those more-things-moving-around which I'll link here in a bit.)

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot (taken from screencast) showing the bug

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #2)

(In current Nightly, it's worse than what's shown here, because there are more things that are moving around at the same time, beyond just these 3-dot-menus. I'm going to file a separate bug on those more-things-moving-around which I'll link here in a bit.)

(I filed bug 1909530 and bug 1909532 on the additional-stuff-moving-around that I mentioned here, BTW.)

Comment 5

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

:mconley, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1859350, could you take a look? Also, could you set the severity field?

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Comment 6

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Over to Scott for prioritization / severity.