539016 - zoom not remembered

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[aron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100105 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100105 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

changing the zoom on any page and then clicking on a URL on that page loads the new page but resets the zoom back to 100%

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load a page
2. zoom in (with ctrl + mouse wheel for example)
3. click on a link on that page
Actual Results:  
the zoom is back to 100% on the new page

Expected Results:  
I would expect the same zoom to be applied as on the previous page, just like in Firefox 3.5 and earlier

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Are you in Private Browsing mode? Tools > Options > Privacy > Never remember history? In that case also zoom size is not remembered.

Comment 2

[aron]

Yes, I was in private mode. Was this the behavior in FF 3.5 too?

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Yes, also in Firefox 3.5 this is by design.

Comment 4

[Mark MacLean]

Why is this behavior by design? What has zoom size got to do with privacy? It seems irrelevant to me.

I would expect to be able to zoom on a page, click a link and have the new tab zoom level be the same as the previous tab with the link. I can understand not retaining the zoom size between sessions since this would involve writing to the disk.