500503 - when creating a new tab, please show the URL bar instead of a blank white screen

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8) (PTO back normal Nov 17)]

upon adding a new tab using the + button, I get a blank white page with a virtual keyboard.  This is confusing as the tab strip is gone (agreed this should be the case), the url bar is hidden (oops) and the background is just white.  Maybe an awesome bar?

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

if you start on a page with the toolbar panned down (not floating), the new tab works as expected. The toolbar is ready and waiting.

If the initial tab page has been panned, the new tab page has the same pan, so the toolbar is offscreen.

Almost exactly like bug 500012

This change broke it:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/0908495a295d#l39

Going back to ws.panTo(0, -BrowserUI.toolbarH) should fix it.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: patch

This patch switches back to the previous behavior. The hideTabs() was added as a way to minimize the size of the pan, but it's needed.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

pushed https://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/917f9e62144f

Comment 4

[Carla Nadastean]

Retested with:
Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111018 Firefox/10.0a1 Fennec/10.0a1
Device: Motorola Droid 2
OS: Android 2.3

Bug is no longer reproducible: awesome screen is displayed with focus in the url bar when trying to add a new tab.

Verifying bug.