1402640 - Duplicate Tabs Closer doesn't work on Fennec

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20170920135429

Steps to reproduce:

It works perfectly on desktop and makes all of the proper API calls but for some reason it doesn't display duplicate tabs or have the ability to close them.

Comment 1

[Nevin Chen(Not active on Bugzilla)]

Thanks for filing this!
Do you have STR for this?
Also the app version and links you were using?

Comment 2

[Paul [pwd]]

STR

1. Open Fennec
2. Open a new tab
3. Open https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer/ in that tab
4. Open another new tab
5. Open https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer/ in that tab
6. Hope that bug 1401566 isn't preventing you from accessing your add-on actions
7. Tap Duplicate Tabs Closer

Comment 3

[Nevin Chen(Not active on Bugzilla)]

Hi Wesly
Please help prioritize for investigation.

Comment 4

[Wesly Huang (EPM)]

Hi Andy, is this something your team is able to look into? Thanks.

Comment 5

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Confirmed using STR in Comment 2.

Comment 6

[Andy McKay]

According to AMO, that extension is not listed as compatible with Android.

Running the add-on, I get the following error:

TypeError: chrome.windows is undefined popup.js:188:3

The add-on uses the windows API, which as documented is not supported on Android:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/windows

There is a suggestion in bug 1404014 that we implement a light browser.windows API, that might be able to work for this add-on. Or it could detect the presence (or lack there of) of the API and work around that. 

For these reasons I'm going to close as invalid, but duping over to bug 1404014 might be appropriate too.