873746 - Opening URI that launches an app leaves a blank tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Franklin Tse]

Attachment: Test page

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

Steps to reproduce:

Click on a link having target=_blank with href=a custom URI that launches an app


Actual results:

A blank window (about:blank) remains after the app is launched


Expected results:

No blank window (about:blank) remains after the app is launched

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

See also bug 826325

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This is unrelated to 826325. I can think of some hacky ways to fix this, but I wonder if the platform has something better. Gavin, can you point me at anything?

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Reminds me of bug 241972. The mShouldCloseWindow logic in nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp should be calling close() on the tab's window in this case. Does that not close the tab in Fennec, for some reason? Or is that code not being hit here?

Comment 4

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