Go Home gesture no longer works for about:home

[RoninStorm]

Something in the recently updated FF 61.0 release has broken the Go Home gesture. Other gestures work fine (e.g. New Tab, Close Tab, History Back, etc).

This is also true for a user script gesture that I wrote before Go Home was a built-in gesture, specifically:

executeInBackground(() => {
   getActiveTab(tab => browser.tabs.update(tab.id, { url: 'about:home' }));
});

It's one of my most used gestures so hopefully it'll be possible to patch it back in!

[RoninStorm]

As a by the by, I can cheat the effect I want of returning to about:newtab by using the following user script:

executeInBackground((data) => {
   commandCloseTab(data);
   commandNewTab(data);
});

But obviously this is destructive to browsing history from the tab that's been force closed.

[marklieberman]

According to the documentation, you cannot pass about:newtab to browser.tabs.update({url:. ...}) but you can pass about:home. However, that not longer seems to be the case: So it seems like this change is internal to Firefox. However, if your homepage is set to a real URL like https://reddit.com, then Go Home command is working fine.

[marklieberman]

Related BugZilla bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269456 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400555