698094 - Remove SessionHistory from the Java process

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P4)

Description

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

The real session history is already stored in gecko. All we seem to need is some flags to say "can we go back" and "can we go forward". We do the same thing in the multi-process XUL UI app.

We send the canGoBack and canGoForward booleans in the onLocationChange JSON message and store them in the "Tab". We can do the same thing in Java.

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

UX folks were considering behaviour on long-press of the back button that would show the user a list of "back" entries, similar to desktop. This might require storing some session history in Java to implement.

Comment 2

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

I think the minimum level we store in Java now is enough to support some UX things in the future (do we have a bug filed for the list of back entries?) while not adding additional things like form data, cookies and other stuff that can live nicely in SessionStore.js

Closing this for now.