366877 - generated microsummaries updated against page loaded into tab even if page is stale

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Microsummaries, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

When it's time to update a microsummary generated by a microsummary generator, the microsummary service checks to see if the page in question is loaded into a tab.  If so, it uses the document object in the tab instead of loading the page itself, regardless of how long the page has been loaded into the tab.

So if you leave a page open for a day, and it has a bookmark using a generated live title, that title won't change throughout the day, even if the page changes on the server in ways that should affect the live title.

The microsummary service should ensure a page loaded into a tab is fresh before using it to generate the page's live title.  It might do this by reloading the page in the tab.  Or it could download the page separately in the background, as it currently does when the page isn't loaded into any tab.

[Note: this may be a duplicate.  I was sure there was a report on this problem already, but I can't find it at this point.]

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Haven't found another bug with the same problem. I saw this too while release testing of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

- BUGSPAM -
Wontfixing all Microsummaries bugs, since the feature has been removed from the core product and previous versions won't get further fixes for it.
If interested in supporting Microsummaries in your add-on, you're free to use our old microsummaries code and to search all previously open bugs by looking for [microsummaries-feature-removal] in the status whiteboard field.