925612 - Regression: awesome screen is hidden after opening new tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect)

Description

[Dan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:27.0) Gecko/27.0 Firefox/27.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20131010030202

Steps to reproduce:

Set Firefox to remember loaded tabs.
Open some tabs, and leave a big web page as the last tab (any page that takes a few seconds to load).
Close Firefox and remove from the Android multitasking list.
Open Firefox. (Tab should be loading.) Press "tabs" button. Press "+" to open a new tab.


Actual results:

The awesome screen is shown for a fraction of a second, but then the previous loading tab is shown. After it finishes loading, the awesome screen is shown again.


Expected results:

The awesome screen should have been shown immediately.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Thanks for the bug report. I was able to reproduce. This seems very edge-casey and likely involving a race on startup with the new about:home code.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.