1217167 - When shareplane clicked & only 1 other synced device, determine a better way to send to that one device

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

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

Follow-up to bug 1213490 – currently a dialog with one choice is shown which is functional but not the ideal UX. I filed this to avoid scope creep.

Comment 1

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

I kinda like knowing the name of the device I am sending to, even if it's the only one in the list. People like feeling in control.

Comment 2

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

Assuming we do this, in the case that we do send to one device, I think the sent notification should also list the name of the device, otherwise it could be act as a mystery button (e.g. tab is sent to the user's other device but even if they figure that out, it isn't sent immediately so they may look for it, not see it, and be confused).

But anyway, I rather set this for mentorable and put development efforts elsewhere – what do you think, Anthony?

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

I agree with Mark.

Flip-flopping in and out of this scenario will be relatively frequent for some users. For example:

* Connect three devices to your account: A, B, C.
* Send a tab on A. You'll be prompted to choose between B and C.
* Use only devices A and C for three weeks.
* Send a tab on A. It'll magically send only to C, because B will have TTLed itself away.
* File a bug wondering why you *sometimes* get a chooser, and sometimes are surprised.


Imagine that you have your work machine and a personal machine as C and B, and you're sending NSFW content. Oops, now you just automatically opened questionable content on your work machine.

Consistency, no surprises, and user control trump number of clicks, IMO, so I would just WONTFIX this bug.


((As I recall, the way we greased the skids on this before, when we had checkboxes for devices and could send to multiple, was to automatically check the box for the device if you have only one. In the share overlay work I thought we switched to tap-to-send, so the need for that went away.))

Comment 4

[Anthony Lam (:antlam) Find me, @antlam on Slack!]

There's probably a solution here which gives users that same feeling of control but at the same time, is still helpful in making the decision our user already want to make anyways.

That being said, I do agree that this is more of a nice to have and requires more thought so we should punt on it for now.

Comment 5

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

Works for me.

Comment 6

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