794731 - No pages rendered when Nightly launched from cold by opening an URL from another app

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I see this with the nightly build from 
 http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ca4af4af5334
and is probably a regression from the previous day.

Starting from Nightly not running, if I open a link from the GMail app, or from Google Reader, then Nightly launches and goes through the motions of retrieving the page but doesn't display anything other than the title in the location bar. No page content is shown in other tabs that are opened, eg by using history or a bookmark. Tab previews are visible in the tab switching UI.

After quitting Nightly and start it manually, pasting in the URL gives a properly rendered page and the browser operates normally. Opening a URL from Gmail is also rendered successfully.

I've seen this on a Galaxy Nexus phone (JB) and Galaxy Tab (ICS).

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Not seen on the previous nightly, with regression range
 http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=08d435dedc7f&tochange=ca4af4af5334

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Narrowed it down to this merge from inbound: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=08d435dedc7f&tochange=7c7639f797d0

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

First failing build:
c1003f039c77	Margaret Leibovic — Bug 789887 - Avoid creating unnecessary AboutHomeRunnables. r=lucasr
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-inbound-android/1348523364/fennec-18.0a1.en-US.android-arm.apk

Previous revision on inbound, which is OK:
b01c3760fce6	David Anderson — Use js_free on fresh slots instead of js_delete (bug 793385, r=billm).
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-inbound-android/1348522944/fennec-18.0a1.en-US.android-arm.apk

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

STR: adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -n org.mozilla.fennec/.App -d "http://www.mozilla.com"

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Also, restarting Nightly after a crash triggers this.

Comment 7

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

I backed out cset c1003f039c77 (bug 789887) and the problem remains.

Comment 8

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

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #7)
> I backed out cset c1003f039c77 (bug 789887) and the problem remains.

Lies. I ran comment 4 with the wrong fennec. Rebuilding and will run again.

Comment 9

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

After retesting using the right package name, I can confirm that a backout of bug 789887 "fixes" the problem.

Comment 10

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

backed out bug 789887
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7fffa1ef35d9

Comment 11

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

I cannot reproduce this issue on the latest Nightly with the STR from comment #4. Closing bug as verified fixed.

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Firefox 18.0a1 (2012-10-05)
Device: Galaxy Note
OS: Android 4.0.4