1922014 - Don't emit navigation events when creating new top-level browsing contexts (tabs) when "about:blank" is loaded

Status: NEW

(Remote Protocol :: WebDriver BiDi, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

When executing the command browsingContext.create we currently send out navigation events like browsingContext.navigationStarted even for the initial about:blank. As discussed during TPAC (https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/issues/766) we should align to other browsers and as well follow the HTML specification which doesn't say that navigation events should be emitted.

This should also apply to evaluating a script that runs window.open() for about:blank.

But normal navigations to about:blank should not be affected.

Comment 1

[Dan]

@whimboo So webdriver bidi, I see the constructor for browsingContext emits the nnavigationStarted event, which is a private method. The browsingContext.Create doesn't emit the navigationStarted event itself. So what we are trying to do here is to remove this right?

Comment 2

[Dan]

Attachment: Bug 1922014 - Don't emit navigation events when creating new top-level browsing contexts (tabs) when "about:blank" is loaded. r?whimboo

Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Per discussion on phabricator, resetting the bug