1384392 - Don't show manual migration offer on existing profiles

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2017-07-25 at 12.21.01 PM.png

Updating to today's Nightly gave me a message (see screenshot) suggesting that I import favorite sites and bookmarks from another browser.

This is a little weird, because this is the Firefox profile that I've been using for 6+ years now. Why suddenly offer to import data?

I'm not sure what the current logic/intent is for this, but seems like this should only be triggering for recently created profiles.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

bryantmao can provide more context. He provided the spec in https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues/2787#issuecomment-316946571

Short summary is that users will see it for at most 3 active days and can dismiss the prompt to not see it again.

Comment 2

[Bryant Mao [:bryantmao]]

After the discussion with Michael, the proposal is to show the import option if the user checks the auto refresh option in the stab installer. Check here for more detail: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues/2967

Comment 4

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

At least for 56, we'll use some way to estimate profile creation time, and if it's older than 3 days, don't offer the manual migration.

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Fixed with https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/pull/2990 to be uplifted via bug 1385133.