1157052 - Websites assume that the middle button of the bottom toolbar allows for adding to the home screen or sharing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1406688

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Attachment: Screenshot of the simple cubiq add-to-homescreen demo on Firefox

Some sites look at the user agent string and point to Safari share UI to tell the user how to share the page or add the site to their home screen. Depending on how sites are implementing this, they may also appear in Firefox for iOS.

We don't currently show the option for the site to be added to the home screen from our share panel and I'm not sure if Apple has a way for us to do that.

Some ideas we can consider:
A) Make our share button be in the center of the toolbar to match Safari.
B) Remove Safari from the UA string.
C) Investigate whether we can get "Add to home screen" to show up in our share menu.
D) Fix libraries to make them not appears for Firefox on iOS.
E) Tech evangelism to affected websites to either update their library dependencies or fix their custom solution.

Luckily there seems to be a popular library that many sites use. Of course getting sites to update their reference to this library is still a fun challenge.
http://cubiq.org/add-to-home-screen
https://wordpress.org/plugins/official-add-to-homescreen (library packaged as a Wordpress plugin).

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Attachment: iOS Simulator with Safari showing a custom popup for grooveshark

I believe I saw this the other day on Firefox for iOS but there isn't a way to clear all storage to confirm this since it seems like they try to only show this once.

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

I guess a similar problem also happens with iPads: https://cdn.tutsplus.com/webdesign/authors/ian-yates/add.png

More library links:
* https://github.com/okamototk/jqm-mobile-bookmark-bubble
* https://code.google.com/p/mobile-bookmark-bubble/

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Cute. Thanks for filing.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.