1175915 - Android will no longer call android installer to install .apk files downloaded by the browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1176018

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Download Manager, defect)

Description

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Android will no longer call android installer to install .apk files downloaded by the browser

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Android will no longer, or Firefox will no longer?

Firefox should prompt you about downloading any APK.

Comment 2

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I have install apps form untrusted sources enabled on my device this is a regression between the 6/16 and 6/17 nightly build.

Comment 3

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Too make it clear, the error is not a android blocked the install it is a message form Firefox saying I don't know what to do with this file type.

Comment 4

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

And just to e on my soapbox, we will have more of these types of things not tested by real users the longer wee keep the tree open with no nightlies being updated for our users.

Comment 5

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

So revision window is http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=ce863f9d8864&tochange=d7c148c84594.  I am bisecting that

Comment 6

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

This is less of an issue now that automatic nightly updates are working once again, however it is still not possible to, for example, install Aurora from this page http://aurora.mozilla.org/ using a current nightly build.  I am lowering the importance to major.

Comment 7

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Seems was a merge form fx-team that caused this so need to bisect that now.

Comment 8

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

OK so hg bisect identified a security bug I can't see bug 1168662.  trying a backout.

Comment 9

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

and this was verified via backout.

Comment 10

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

upping this back to being a blocker if i cannot back this out becuase of security i cannot see this is impoacting my ability to work in other areas.

Comment 11

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Oh I neglected to post that hg bisect said:

The first bad revision is:
changeset:   248941:cb07547fd9ab
user:        Michael Comella <[e-mail]>
date:        Fri Jun 12 16:26:24 2015 -0700
summary:     Bug 1168662 - Modify all outgoing Intents with CATEGORY_BROWSABLE. r=margaret

Comment 12

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

NI'ing Mike so he is aware of the regression

Comment 13

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

My assumption is that the Android installer does not accept CATEGORY_BROWSABLE.

The best solution here is to identify when we're creating an Intent to open a downloaded APK and remove the CATEGORY_BROWSABLE category from the sent Intent.