1187547 - Can't interact with firefox when screen filter is active

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[kbaby]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20150722030205

Steps to reproduce:

Have a screen filter (e.g twillight, dimmer, etc) active.


Actual results:

Can't interact at all; can't scroll, click links on webpages, or use the urlbar/ newtab button/ hamburger menu.


Expected results:

Be able to use firefox normally.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Mike: I wonder if this is outfall from adding filterTouchesWhenObscured?

I think I noticed something similar when a "heads-up notification" is shown by Hangouts. But I wanted to do some more testing before filing.

Comment 2

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

I'm seeing this with twilight installed (which also explains why I tend to see it at the end of the day) and the time frame coresponds with the landing of bug 1147265.

mcomella, I think we need a back out

Comment 3

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

(In reply to Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?) from comment #2)
> I'm seeing this with twilight installed (which also explains why I tend to
> see it at the end of the day) and the time frame coresponds with the landing
> of bug 1147265.
> 
> mcomella, I think we need a back out

I agree. I would also like to know how other apps, that use filterTouchesWhenObscured are effected by things like Twilight.

Comment 5

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #3)
> (In reply to Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?) from comment #2)
> > I'm seeing this with twilight installed (which also explains why I tend to
> > see it at the end of the day) and the time frame coresponds with the landing
> > of bug 1147265.
> > 
> > mcomella, I think we need a back out
> 
> I agree. I would also like to know how other apps, that use
> filterTouchesWhenObscured are effected by things like Twilight.

I think I just found out. I haven't been able to update nightly or install aurora for a while. Apparently the system installer uses filterTouchesWhenObscured because disabling twilight just allowed me to click the install button for the first time in a month or so.

Comment 6

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

So it sounds like Twilight (and other filters) would always create some level of "bustage" in Fennec, even if we did our best to limit the filterTouchesWhenObscured to only "actions" like menus and buttons.

Comment 7

[Cameron Conn]

+1
I have replicated this bug while using Lux in Nightly using Android 4.4.2

I only started having this issue around two weeks ago.

Comment 9

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

Backout in bug 1147265 so this should be fixed.