714092 - 'Add to Homescreen' shortcut kills browser and spawns new Fennec process rather than using existing in a new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 712761

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Each tap of an Android home screen shortcut should open its associated URL in a new tab in the running Fennec process. XUL Fennec performs as expected. What happens now is that Fennec dies and a new browser opens:

E/GeckoConsole( 5279): fs_handle exception!:  [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIBrowserDOMWindow.openURI]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: jar:jar:file:///data/app/org.mozilla.fennec-1.apk!/omni.ja!/components/BrowserCLH.js :: fs_handle :: line 63"  data: no]
I/WindowManager(  154): WIN DEATH: Window{418610d0 org.mozilla.firefox/org.mozilla.firefox.App paused=false}
W/WindowManager(  154): Force-removing child win Window{41dee760 SurfaceView paused=false} from container Window{418610d0 org.mozilla.firefox/org.mozilla.firefox.App paused=false}
I/ActivityManager(  154): Process org.mozilla.firefox (pid 5100) has died.

Comment 1

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

This is related to "launching" not "creating" the home screen link, so bug 711905 is not affected.

This seems like a dupe of bug 712761, which fixes the problem with openURI