1999235 - Unloading a tab does not remove the green dot

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

Description

[Denys [:denyshon]]

Attachment: A green dot next to a grayed out tab icon

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start loading a tab and switch to a different one immediately (before the initial tab is loaded).
2. Wait until the loading of the first tab is finished. A green dot will appear near the tab icon.
3. Right-click the first tab and select Unload.

Actual results:

The tab icon grays out, but the green dot persists.

Expected results:

The tab icon grays out, and the green dot disappears.

Comment 1

[Denys [:denyshon]]

I've noticed the green dot not appearing often, but I don't know what it depends on.

Comment 2

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

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

Comment 3

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Hello, thank you for the bug report!

As far as I know, the green dot is a notification whenever a tab is changed/updated.

I managed to reproduce this issue ( with pinned tabs) on the following:

• Firefox Nightly 147.0a1;
• Firefox 146.0b1;
• Firefox 145.0;

Tested and reproduced on:

• Windows 10;
• Ubuntu 22;
• macOS 15;

I’m not sure whether this is intended behavior, therefore I will be setting this as NEW and wait for the developer’s input.