1415620 - Only show add-ons relevant to the Android platform

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Add-on Manager, defect)

Description

[Mark]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171108110838

Steps to reproduce:

On Nightly 2017-11-08 Desktop & Android versions
- Search for add-ons
- Install an add-on called "app.telemetry" to measure page load speed
- I can install it on Nightly Android but...

It doesn't work. It kind of half works in that the app.telemetry UI shows up but all the test results are question marks.

(I guess this is because the Android WebExtension API is a subset of the Desktop??)

I also tried an ad-on called "Tap to Tab". Same story - installs on Android but doesn't work.

Add-on search should only offer apps which are known to work on the relevant platform.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Either the add-on author has declared the add-on as being compatible with Android as well even though it really isn't (and I've heard some complaints that the UI might make it too easy to do that by mistake), or else it's a problem with addons.mozilla.org, in which case please open a bug here: https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/new

Comment 2

[Mark]

Actually older version of Tap to Tab does work, there's a version issue with latest. Nice little add-on. Will chase up on telemetry. Cheers.