1209160 - Too much devices shown in "Share tab" on Android

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180287

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Overlays, defect)

Description

[rugk]

Attachment: SyncMultipleDevices.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20150917150946
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Update to Firefox 41 and use Sync to share a tab.

Device: Galaxy S4, Android 5.0.1


Actual results:

Originally I only have 2 devices (desktop) and one Android device (which is incorrectly detected, because it's the device itself, which I just renamed at some point).
However now 11 entries are shown - even some Firefox for Android devices which names I didn't used long time ago (including the default device name for Android "Firefox on <Smartphone type ID>"). The other names are mostly from the one desktop device I use most often.
I did not tested it closely, but one time sending did not work, so probably some of the duplicated devices do not work and tabs do not arrive.


Expected results:

Only show correct devices.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Richard, do you know what'd be going on here and/or how to debug?

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Nick or Vivek can dupe this.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

In short: we have all of these client records in the DB, and we're showing them. Newer Firefox versions do better here, and there's another step to take which is to obey record TTLs locally, not just remotely.

Comment 4

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him] (PTO Feb 24-March 3)]

This should be mostly addressed by Bug 1180286, which I think is a Firefox 43 thing.