Closed Bug 652889 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Bookmarking 'about:addons' allows opening multiple Add-on Manager tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: sdrocking, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [bugday-20110513])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110426 Firefox/5.0a2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110426 Firefox/5.0a2 Should switch to Add-on manager tab somehow. Reproducible: Always
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110426 Firefox/6.0a1 I can open multiple Add-on manger tabs by typing about:addons in the address bar. So which of them would you like the bookmark to switch to? Or is it somehow a general problem that Firefox can open multiple Add-on manager tabs?
Works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110510 Firefox/5.0a2 and also on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110510 Firefox/6.0a1 Also, could you see if the issue occurs if using Firefox in safe mode: http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode How about with a new, empty testing profile? (Don't install any addons into it) http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
Yes, this report seems to say that it is possible to open several add-on manager tabs in various ways (bookmark, direct URL typing). That can become a problem (or at least misleading) because if you do any action in the tab, the duplicate tabs aren't completely synchronized. They try, but aren't the same. What is the current component for Addon manager?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 7 → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Whiteboard: [bugday-20110513]
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Component: General → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
QA Contact: general → add-ons.manager
This is not something we're going to fix. If you fix cases where the UI shows something incorrect then please file bugs on that.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Bookmarking an URL and opening it should not behave like switch-to-tab. It's expected that the URL opens in the current tab. As Dave said, please file new bugs if you see that the status is not correctly synchronized.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
And this has nothing to do with the Add-ons Manager but how bookmarks work.
Component: Add-ons Manager → Bookmarks & History
Product: Toolkit → Firefox
QA Contact: add-ons.manager → bookmarks
Yes, but the idea was that when these special URLs (e.g. about:addons) are actually a part of the application, there could be protection against opening them multiple times to not confuse the user by displaying different state.
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