1043505 - White list about:home for Firefox Accounts landing page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Winston Bowden]

We'd like to offer users an easy way to sign up from about:home.  The feedback we’ve received is that about:home needs to be white listed in order to allow access to the Accounts sign up page.

Experience would work as follows:
- User opens Firefox and about:home loads 
- User sees a snippet with an accounts call to action and clicks link to create an account
- User is directed to Firefox Accounts page and begins the sign up process

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This depends on bug 1035586 - there's already a "showFirefoxAccounts" UITour command from bug 998934 that should allow this.

Comment 2

[Andrei Vaida [:avaida]]

Jared, per our conversation from IRC, I tried to verify the fix for this bug by adding a script element to the about:home page and calling Mozilla.UITour.showFirefoxAccounts() via dev tools, but I keep getting a reference error and the accounts snippet is not displayed. I also tried pretty much the same thing using Scratchpad, but again, with no success.

Am I missing something? Or is there any other way QA can verify this?

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

We discussed this over IRC and Andrei got it figured out.

Comment 4

[Andrei Vaida [:avaida]]

(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me) from comment #3)
> We discussed this over IRC and Andrei got it figured out.
Yeah, thanks again Jared for pointing me towards the right direction.

This is now verified fixed on Nightly 34.0a1 (2014-07-31), by calling Mozilla.UITour.showFirefoxAccounts() directly from Web Console, which results in a redirection to about:accounts?action=signup. Platforms covered: Windows 7 64-bit, Mac OS X 10.9.4 and Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit.

Comment 5

[Andrei Vaida [:avaida]]

Verified fixed on Aurora 33.0a2 (2014-08-04) and Firefox 32 Beta 4 (Build ID: 20140804164216) as well.