1189571 - [e10s] AOL Toolbar compatibility bug

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect, P2)

Description

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

Assignee: Bill McCloskey
Link to add-on: http://extensions.aol.com/-/aol?ncid=download
Contact info for add-on: ?
Add-on ID: {7affbfae-c4e2-4915-8c0f-00fa3ec610a1}
How well does it work?: 50%
Steps to reproduce working features:
- Toolbar buttons all appear to work, including weather, calendar, and radio gadgets.
- Search works.

Steps to reproduce broken features:
- When you click "Edit > Go To Add-Ons Gallery", it opens a tab which is broken. Same for "Customize My AOL Toolbar".
- The TechCrunch button is supposed to be a dropdown. When you click the down arrow, it shows a panel with some random HTML code. This is also broken in non-e10s.
- "Edit > Add A Buddy To Toolbar" tries to open an aim: URL, which doesn't work in e10s or non-e10s.

Any obvious performance problems? No.

SDK-based: No.

Chromium version: No, presumably due to Chrome's store policy.

Comment 1

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

We need a contact person at AOL.

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

There way to send feedback is through:
http://feedback.aol.com/product/toolbars/?tid=224&r=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolbar.aol.com%2Faol%2Fdownload.html&ch=

That said there are maybe better ways to reach them out.
AOL has a repo on github 
https://github.com/aol

They also have an active engineering blog
http://blog.engineering.aol.com/

I will contact today Pawel Raszewski to know if he can help us finding the right people at AOL.
https://github.com/maestr0

Comment 3

[raszewski]

I've notified AOL team responsible for the extension. 

fyi: I was not able to reproduce the issue on FF 42.0. 

Pawel Raszewski

Comment 4

[brian ellis]

Hi - the add a button link was fixed with the new custom browser release last week.  The 'add a buddy to your toolbar' feature is no longer offered and hasn't been for some time, I think that the user hasn't upgraded their toolbar.  As for techcrunch, it seems to work for me - I see the rss feeds listed.

Comment 5

[:shell escalante]

Karl found contact person - clearing need info for Kev

Comment 6

[:shell escalante]

based on bug sounds like good target to validate.

Comment 7

[Michelle Funches - QA]

QA Update: WFM e10s enabled/Shim True; e10s enabled/Shim False; e10s disabled/Shim False
AOL Toolbar 6.36.32
Version 	51.0a2
Build ID 	20161102004003
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0

Comment 8

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

With Firefox 57 only WebExtensions are permitted and are, by default, e10s compatible.