960711 - When directly opening URL that's in browser.newtab.url, tab title says New Tab if the page has no title (even after a normal page)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Glenn Knickerbocker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131021230807

Steps to reproduce:

browser.newtab.url is set to file:///c:/gsk/home.html
home.html has no <title> tag
Open some other file in a new tab,
and then open home.html in that tab.


Actual results:

The tab title now says "New Tab" even though home.html was not the first file displayed in that tab.  This can make it hard to find a tab where another page was opened, in order to go back in the history to that page.


Expected results:

The tab title should be the URL, the same as when any other new page without a title is opened in an existing tab.  It should be "New Tab" only when on the first page in the tab's history.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Reproduced with 2014-01-20-03-02-02-mozilla-central-firefox-29.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

It's debatable whether this is really a bug. I don't think we want to complicate the code to change behavior here.

Comment 3

[Glenn Knickerbocker]

Why complicate?  Simplify.  Just ignore the URL entirely, and use the same history information that's used to deactivate the Back button.  If the back button is active, this isn't a new tab.

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Glenn Knickerbocker from comment #3)
> Why complicate?  Simplify.  Just ignore the URL entirely, and use the same
> history information that's used to deactivate the Back button.  If the back
> button is active, this isn't a new tab.

Are you speculating here or did you actually look how this code works?