595345 - Open "About Mozilla" link in a remote tab

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Attachment: patch

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open about:home
2. Click the "About Mozilla" link

Expected results: About Mozilla page opens in a remote tab
Actual results: About Mozilla page opens in the original local tab

After you do this, you can browse to ether pages in the local tab.  Users could easily do this inadvertently.  This is especially bad in current tileless builds where zooming is broken in local tabs.

Comment 1

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

Comment on attachment 474206 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

I can live with this nice simple fix. If we need something more, we might need to add code to content.js to watch for opening links and send messages back to chrome.

This is fine for now though.

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/ebea867b3369

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

verified FIXED on builds:
Mozilla/5.0 (Maemo; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100913 Namoroka/4.0b6pre Fennec/2.0b1pre

and

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; Nokia N900; en-US; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100913 Namoroka/4.0b6pre Fennec/2.0b1pre