369440 - Clicking the Home button may create duplicates of the already open tabs with multiple pages saved as home

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[joe snipe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060803 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Swiftfox)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060803 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Swiftfox)

If you have multiple tabs set as your home page; if you click on the home button then it will change the current tab to your first homepage, and then open up each other homepage (tab) in a new tab.  It SHOULD check the other tabs to see if they are duplicates and load accordingly.  While this is not a glitch (error in programming), it is a bug (error in interface), in that it is not a feature (error in usability).  i am sure this is a minor problem, and I am very pleased with your product.  thank you for your time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open firefox with multiple tabs saved as "home".
2. randomly go to new web pages, leaving at least one tab unchanged. 
3. click home button to see all tabs recreated, including the unchanged tab.
Actual Results:  
after I performed the steps above multple tabs showing the same web page were produced(in essence).

Expected Results:  
the software checked for other copies of the URL it was about to load and either a: cancelled the loading of a repititious tab, b: closed the other tab and loaded the new tab (your guess as to which is preferable...) or c: reloaded the original tab without creating a duplicate (BAD Move!).

This seems like a basic oversight, sorry to be a dick by ponting it out.

Ian

Comment 1

[Bruno Calvignac]

That would be a nice improvement.

Comment 2

[Micah Gersten]

Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387556

This is also present on 3.5~hg20090615r25976 and 3.0.11.
Also present on AMD64.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

This is probably wontfix per bug 195212 comment 70 by Mike Connor, but I'm keeping it open to attract duplicates. See also bug 330239.

> The expected behavior after the fix is that the current tab is replaced by the
> home page group leaving all other tabs alone regardless of the setting of
> browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace ? So, the original report where  clicking
> Home multiple times in a row continually adds new pages is now expected?

Right.

Trying to be clever about replacing is doomed to failure and strange behaviour,
and reusing the pref is weird.  Having another hidden pref to always replace as
with bookmarks could be done as a followup.

Comment 7

[Arnie Goetchius]

This problem is also now occurring in SM 2.1b2pre

Comment 8

[Keith Brooks]

I'm having the same issue. I only have one "home" page set but clicking on the "home" icon duplicates the existing tabs.

Comment 9

[Arnie Goetchius]

Keith Brooks, this problem surfaced a long time ago. Don't expect it to get fixed, ever

Comment 10

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

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S4. However, the bug has 3 duplicates.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 11

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.