1990250 - HNT - Homepage title - "about:home" is too niche-specific

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android :: Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Petru-Mugurel Lingurar [:petru]]

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Steps to reproduce

1. Have "Homepage as a New Tab" enabled
2. Build up tab history
3. Long press on the navigation icons in the toolbar / menu
4. Select "about:home"

Expected behavior

See a proper title like "Home" or "New tab" as Chrome uses

Actual behavior

The HNT title is the same as it's url: "about:home".

Comment 1

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

Attachment: Bug 1990250 - Part 1: Fix code references to the ABOUT_HOME_URL constant

Comment 2

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

Attachment: Bug 1990250 - Part 2: Override the title of the "about:home" tab to "Homepage" in a tab's history state

• Replaces the empty title with the homepage title for homepage tabs that appears in a tab's history state.

Comment 3

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

During a UX review over Slack (thread) about the string usage in both tabs tray and tabs history with @topotropic and @emilyw, @emilyw confirmed that we want to move towards saying "Firefox homepage" (one word, no caps on homepage) for both iOS and Android for the title that appears on homepage tab in the tabs tray and tab history. The exact copy will use the "{app name} homepage".

Comment 4

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

Attachment: Bug 1990250 - Part 3: Update the homepage tab title to use "{app name} homepage"

Context: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1990250#c3

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/6a93473661fc
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cc960d7f8d9d
Part 1: Fix code references to the ABOUT_HOME_URL constant r=android-reviewers,jonalmeida
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/cb414564bd83
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/3134617db57c
Part 2: Override the title of the "about:home" tab to "Homepage" in a tab's history state r=android-reviewers,jonalmeida

Comment 6

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cc960d7f8d9d
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3134617db57c

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/66002eb2b53d
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9b7bc9745aa4
Part 3: Update the homepage tab title to use "{app name} homepage" r=android-reviewers,android-l10n-reviewers,jonalmeida,flod

Comment 8

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9b7bc9745aa4

Comment 9

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Attachment: Screenshot_20251002_160444_Firefox Nightly.jpg

Verified as fixed on the latest Nightly 145.0a1 from 2025.10.01 with Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (Android 14).