799927 - Cant access url bar when page has crashed and url bar has been scrolled off screen

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Browser, defect)

Description

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Attachment: Screenshot of problem

As per title

If you have not scrolled the page before it crashes then you can access the url bar

Comment 1

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

Can we get better STR here?

Also, can UX create a better outcome for the "Close Tab" button? Pressing "Close Tab" would allow the browser to work, but if there is only one tab open we won't get "Close Tab". Maybe we should, and pressing it will close the crashed tab and open a new about:blank tab.

Comment 2

[Larissa Co [:lco]]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #1)
> Can we get better STR here?
> 
> Also, can UX create a better outcome for the "Close Tab" button? Pressing
> "Close Tab" would allow the browser to work, but if there is only one tab
> open we won't get "Close Tab". Maybe we should, and pressing it will close
> the crashed tab and open a new about:blank tab.

We're actually discussing that in bug 797272. I would like to show about:home if there's only one tab, and it crashes.

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

There's a workaround to just close the browser app via task manager, and not go back to that page that keeps crashing. Re-nominating.

Comment 4

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

I cant remember why accessing the url bar was important, current behaviour is to requirements