External links in webapps do not allow returning to the webapp

[James Tait]

Steps to reproduce:

 1) Launch the facebook webapp
 2) Click a link to an external website (e.g. BBC news article)
 3) Attempt to navigate back to facebook (drag up from the bottom of the screen and use the Back menu option)

Expected result: I should go back to my Facebook feed
Actual result: nothing - I have to go to the apps scope and quit facebook, then re-open it and browse through my feed from the top.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Hi James,

The issue you're seeing is that you are transported from the confines of the facebook webapp into webbrowser-app. So you can't browse back to facebook, because you've just started your session by opening a link to something outside facebook.

What we're missing here is a way to tell you that you switched to another application, ie the general webbrowser.

In the future, we may be able to switch back to facebook, based on URL matching, but that requires some other changes in url-dispatcher & webbrowser-app.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Correction: the issue is worse than that and corresponds to the original description.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:webbrowser-app at revision None, scheduled for release in webbrowser-app, milestone ubuntu-13.04-month-5

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.22+13.10.20131004.1-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.22+13.10.20131004.1-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

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  [ Robert Bruce Park ]
  * Enable hardening, and fix some lintian warnings.

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Use a different port for the test server when a zombie process
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  * Live bookmarking functionality in the activity view. Known
    shortcoming: in the activity view, one should be allowed to bookmark
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  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 367
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