838330 - When a web page is opened via an intent, with Gecko already running, about:blank is loaded

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Bug 827370 has a fix on mozilla-central although in the case of which Gecko is already running, I continue to see about:blank. 

Currently with my Nightly (02/05) build, when I load a URL via an intent (bit.ly/t.co) from Twitter and Gecko is already running, I continue to see about:blank for a split second.

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Is this also a regression from bug 800199?

Comment 2

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

I've seen this too, and I was investigating yesterday. We're getting an onLocationChange event for about:blank, even though I couldn't find anywhere we explicitly load about:blank when creating a new tab. [1] was the only candidate I saw, but I confirmed that we do have a valid URI at that point, and we are in fact passing the correct URL in at [2]. I assume something deeper is triggering this.

[1] http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/1eab3e0d7f53/mobile/android/chrome/content/browser.js#l2680
[1] http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/1eab3e0d7f53/mobile/android/chrome/content/browser.js#l689

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

re comment #0; also reproducible just by launching via a manually added home-screen shortcut

Comment 4

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