Mozilla Firefox

Visiting the Extension Home Page replaces the saved session

Bug #219755 reported by Christopher Yee Mon
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mozilla Firefox
Invalid
Medium
firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Summary: Start up Firefox and have it search for updates to Extensions. If it finds any updates, apply them. Once you choose the button to apply them it will display a dialog stating that the extensions were updated successfully. In that dialog box, right click one of the extensions that were updated, and choose Visit Home Page. If the user chooses this option it will cause the Firefox instance that loads to display only the Extension home page and none of the other pages that were part of the previous session.

Firefox 2.0.0.13
Kubuntu 7.10

Steps
1. Set Firefox to load the previously saved session
2. Open mutiple tabs in Firefox
3. Restart Firefox at a point when the there are extensions that need to be updated
4. When Firefox restarts, it should prompt the user to update the extensions that it found updates for. Click Install Updates at this dialog box.
5. After clicking Install Updates, the dialog box will state whether each extension was updated successfully. Right click one of the entries and click Visit Home Page
6. Observe whether the tabs that were open in Firefox previously will be opened

Expected Results: When the user clicks Visit Home Page it should open the Extension's Home Page in a new tab

Actual Results: The tabs that were previously opened are not reloaded when the user clicks Visit Home Page. Instead the user just gets one open tab with the Extension's Home Page loaded.

This scenario has not been tested with Firefox 3.

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In , Robert-bugzilla (robert-bugzilla) wrote :

Update notification was done on startup for 2.0 as a temporary measure to provide update notification and this will be fixed after there is an app notification widget as in bug 347585

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In , Adam Guthrie (ispiked) wrote :

*** Bug 371001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Zeniko (zeniko) wrote :

*** Bug 371373 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Robert-bugzilla (robert-bugzilla) wrote :

The option to open a browser window during startup update notification via the context menu for the homepage and the about dialog has been removed in bug 348419. So, this bug should now be fixed by the checkin of bug 348419. Resolving duplicate of bug 348419.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348419 ***

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Christopher Yee Mon (christopher-yeemon) wrote :

Summary: Start up Firefox and have it search for updates to Extensions. If it finds any updates, apply them. Once you choose the button to apply them it will display a dialog stating that the extensions were updated successfully. In that dialog box, right click one of the extensions that were updated, and choose Visit Home Page. If the user chooses this option it will cause the Firefox instance that loads to display only the Extension home page and none of the other pages that were part of the previous session.

Firefox 2.0.0.13
Kubuntu 7.10

Steps
1. Set Firefox to load the previously saved session
2. Open mutiple tabs in Firefox
3. Restart Firefox at a point when the there are extensions that need to be updated
4. When Firefox restarts, it should prompt the user to update the extensions that it found updates for. Click Install Updates at this dialog box.
5. After clicking Install Updates, the dialog box will state whether each extension was updated successfully. Right click one of the entries and click Visit Home Page
6. Observe whether the tabs that were open in Firefox previously will be opened

Expected Results: When the user clicks Visit Home Page it should open the Extension's Home Page in a new tab

Actual Results: The tabs that were previously opened are not reloaded when the user clicks Visit Home Page. Instead the user just gets one open tab with the Extension's Home Page loaded.

This scenario has not been tested with Firefox 3.

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Christopher Yee Mon (christopher-yeemon) wrote :
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 219755] Re: Visiting the Extension Home Page replaces the saved session

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:31:34AM -0000, Christopher Yee Mon wrote:
>
> ** Attachment added: "The Dialog Box where the user would choose the Visit Home Page option"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13582679/2008-04-19-200622_1680x1050_scrot.png
>

I agree, this is a minor annoyance i guess, but nevertheless not
unimportant

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status confirmed
 importance medium

Someone should try to find the upstream bug report in bugzilla.mozilla.org

 affects firefox
 status incomplete

 - Alexander

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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In , Zeniko (zeniko) wrote :

So, this bug still exists with a slight modification of step #2:
2. If firefox shows the extension autoupdater with a new version of any of your
extensions, _install the update and then_ open the extension's home page.

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In , Painter75 (painter75) wrote :

*** Bug 417774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Willem Ligtenberg (wligtenberg) wrote :

Linked against the mozilla bugtracker

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: Incomplete → Unknown
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Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Zeniko (zeniko) wrote :

*** Bug 501303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Dave Neary (dneary) wrote :

this bug is really annoying. It's been present since Firefox 2 (2006) and just caused me to lose about 20 tabs I wanted saved (incidentally, I was restarting Firefox to reset its memory use - which is still high when I open, read & then close tabs - an operation I typically have to do every 2 days or so).

Any chance of special-casing the plug-ins home-page dialog (perhaps creating a temporary profile for a separate instance), while the new application notification widget still isn't released?

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Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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In , Vseerror (vseerror) wrote :

Does this still reproduce for you?

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In , Torhu (torhu) wrote :

I have no idea if this is still a problem, I don't seem to get extension autoupdates at startup other than when Firefox updates itself now. Maybe it's just my profile getting old, as I have automatic update of extensions enabled. Firefox updates are disabled, don't know if that would matter.

I'll leave it to someone else to decide if this is still a problem, as I haven't noticed anything for years now. As far as I'm concerned, there's no problem anymore.

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In , Vseerror (vseerror) wrote :

(In reply to torhu from comment #10)
> I'll leave it to someone else to decide if this is still a problem, as I
> haven't noticed anything for years now. As far as I'm concerned, there's no
> problem anymore.

Thanks. WFM based on feedback.

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Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Upstream report closed "RESOLVED WORKSFORME" on 2013-06-21
Download/update extensions now handled differently
Visiting extension home page opens a new tab
So closing as issue fixed

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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