862941 - Minor issue with refresh of images on about:newtab page.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 949655

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[John Kitz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

1. Started FF with about:newtab set as my home page.
2. Clicked on the image for money.cnn.com (using this as an example, because this minor issue became apparent to me when visiting this site) which I have pinned on my newtab page.
3. Clicked on the 'plus' sign to open a new tab.
4. Compared the homepage of money.cnn.com that has completed loading and rendering in the tab opened in 1. with the image for money.cnn.com on the about:newtab page on the new tab opened in 3.




Actual results:

1. The home page money.cnn.com loads just fine in the first tab.
2. Provided that the content of the homepage of money.cnn.com, that has completed loading and rendering in the tab opened in 1., has been updated by its editors since the last time the site was visited it differs from the image for money.cnn.com on the about:newtab page on the new tab opened in 3. I.e. the image on the about:newtab page on the new tab opened in 3. still has the content from the last time the site was visited during the previous session.


Expected results:

I would have expected the rendering in the first tab to be the same as the image on the about:newtab page on the second tab, since when I open the second tab the content of the first tab has finished loading in principle making this same (new) content available to refresh the associated image on the about:newtab page as it loads when the second tab opens after the 'plus'  sign is being clicked.

For the refresh to occur one needs to close the first tab, making the second tab the first, then click the image for money.cnn.com again on that page. Wait until the page has finished loading, then click the 'plus' sign again. Now the page loaded on the first tab is the same as the image on the about:newpage tab of the second tab when compared, suggesting that the update does occur, however at an awkward point with respect to the execution of the code.

Comment 1

[John Kitz]

FYI: In order to reproduce and confirm it's probably the easiest to open and pin the site on one day and test and confirm the next, to increase the probability of the main article having been changed.

Comment 2

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Could you please try to reproduce this on latest nightly? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 3

[John Kitz]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi [QA] from comment #2)
> Could you please try to reproduce this on latest nightly?
> http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Sorry, but I have no system for testing purposes at my disposal at this time.

Comment 4

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Mass-move to Firefox::New Tab Page.

Filter on new-tab-page-component.

Comment 5

[SUBASH T]

windows 7 and using firefox 32(version)
I tried to open cnnmoney.com
first time show one picture.
After open new tab, again open cnnmoney.com
That time show another picture.
again press'+'(new tab). again open cnnmoney.com
That 3 page and 2 page images same but first page image is different of both.
when i reload the first page that time show same image of second,third page image.
but information is same that 3pages.

Comment 7

[John Kitz]

Looks like this minor issue has been fixed. Thanks, Jk.