1123132 - Hello/Loop - Cannot join conversation if in private mode (Failed to open a chat window in Chat.jsm)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1108187

(Hello (Loop) :: Client, defect)

Description

[u529232]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150112203352

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start a conversation
2. Send the link to a friend
3. Friend opens the link and your "Hello" Icon turns blue
4. Try to join the conversation (click on the conversation link in the hello menu)

I'm using Firefox 35 on Lubuntu 14.04.



Actual results:

Nothing happens and Firefox browser console says:
"Failed to open a chat window - no host window could be found. - Chat.jsm:113"


Expected results:

Conversation should start/open.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Christoph, thanks for the report.

Are you in private browsing mode? Or somehow not have a main (non-private) browser window open?

Comment 2

[u529232]

(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #1)
> Christoph, thanks for the report.
> 
> Are you in private browsing mode? Or somehow not have a main (non-private)
> browser window open?

Perfect!

I had "Always use private browsing mode" set. After I disabled it Loop/Hello works great.
Is there a better solution than disable the private mode permanently?
Maybe ask the user if he wants to quit the private mode instead of a silent failure?

Thanks for your help.

Comment 3

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: This happens in the latest release version, Fx36. 

A friend of mine said Hello wasn't working for him, and after some troubleshooting, it turned out to be the browser was starting up in private browsing mode. I was able to confirm as well, at least on Mac.

Starting up in PB mode might not be a common occurrence, but there's also no indication you are in PB mode, so troubleshooting this took a little bit of time.

Comment 4

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I don't think this is the common case but it's concerning that Hello completely fails in this supported scenario.

ni Maire to assess impact and help find an owner.

Comment 5

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Gavin is now the engineering manager for the front-end of Hello (basically since early January).  I'm still the platform manager for WebRTC/Hello, but this is a front-end issue. So I'm transferring the needinfo to Gavin.

Comment 6

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

Mark has a patch to disable Hello in Private Browsing windows (perhaps in another bug, dupe as needed).

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Yep, bug 1108187 is disabling Hello in private browsing windows so we can remove the confusion. There's a future looking bug 1005019 for considering if we want to support private browsing mode to some extent (if it makes sense to etc).

Comment 8

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Clearing flags on this dup.