911157 - The user can bookmark the new about:home

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect)

Description

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Nightly 26.0a1 2013-08-30
Samsung Galaxy Tab2 (Android 4.1)

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open about:home
2) Open the custom menu and tap on the bookmark button

Expected results:
Since about:home displays the bookmarks, history and reading lists it should not be possible to bookmark (The button should be grayed out)

Actual results:
The user can bookmark about:home hence bookmarking the bookmarks list.

Comment 1

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

I'm not sure we want to change this. We could bookmark the previous home page as well. What are the downsides to being able to bookmark the page? I don't think anything bad happens if you "bookmark the bookmark list."

Comment 2

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

It's just a strange situation you can get in from my point of view. You have a bookmark that does nothing, changing the tab to it using the switch tab does nothing. I doesn't necessarily create a bad situation hence the minor impact set for the bug.

Comment 3

[:Margaret Leibovic]

For the sake of not adding another `if (about:home) ... ` statement to the tree, let's just WONTFIX this.