868692 - Fennec starts loading previous page before new page when Fennec is opened via intent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 869413

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

STR:
0. Make sure that Fennec is not running
1. Open Fennec and view mozilla.org
2. Go to the homescreen
3. Click on a link in the Twitter (or other app) to open a link in Fennec

Expected:
* mozilla.org should not be shown in location bar when Fennec is launched
* the new URL is shown in the location bar

Actual:
* mozilla.org is shown in the location bar, and the title of the mozilla.org page is eventually shown
* a second or two later, the requested URL begins to load
* sometimes this shows about:blank before the requested URL, but it is basically the same experience but that about:blank loads faster

This was seen on Firefox for Android 05-02 on ICS with HTC Sensation 4G.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I don't see this at all on my Nexus 4 (Android 4.2.2), Nightly 05/04. I clicked on a t.co link on Twitter, and that was the first URL I saw when Nightly came in the foreground over from Twitter.

Comment 2

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Attachment: Video of bug

This video shows the about:blank being shown when the URL is loaded. Apologies for the video coming in as sideways, I'm not sure why B2G did that.

Comment 3

[:Margaret Leibovic]

This sounds a lot like bug 866757. Jared, do you think it's a dupe? It sounds like the issue here is that we're restoring the previous session before we're handling the new URL.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Yes, this sounds exactly like bug 866757. I'm not sure which one you would like to close. Margaret, can you make that call?

Comment 6

[:Margaret Leibovic]

I'm not sure that this is a regression, I feel like this has happened for a while, although Brian may have tried to fix it at one point.

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> I don't see this at all on my Nexus 4 (Android 4.2.2), Nightly 05/04. I
> clicked on a t.co link on Twitter, and that was the first URL I saw when
> Nightly came in the foreground over from Twitter.

Was Nightly running when you clicked the link? I think Nightly needs to be OOM killed to see this problem.

Comment 7

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

Very likely the same issue as bug 869413. Patch is there, so marking this one as duplicate.