1430966 - Firefox app name seems strange (org.mozilla.firefox_beta) and shares battery usage data due to shared ID

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Attachment: Screenshot of Firefox Beta app name on Pixel device

I noticed this when trying to figure out which app was running down my Pixel battery. See attached screenshot - while beta shows with the long string name, Firefox Nightly shows correctly (although you cannot see it in the screenshot)

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Attachment: Screenshot of Firefox app name on Pixel device

Attaching another screenshot, this time showing the Firefox app name showing similar to the Beta name.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

I don't experience that with a Samsung s8 (but the battery app is pretty different from the regular android)

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

I am running on a Pixel, using Android 8.1.0.

Comment 4

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Just guessing, but this might be because Release and Beta are sharing an Android user ID (like Aurora and Nightly used to). I'm not seeing anything strange for battery usage on my phone, but for data usage Firefox and Firefox Beta are grouped together and shown as org.mozilla.firefox.sharedID:10130 in the overview if both of them are installed.

Comment 5

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Devices:
 - Google Pixel (8.1.0);
 - Nexus 5 (6.0.1);
 - Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (5.0.1);

Hello, this was also noticeable on all of the above mentioned devices.
Also checked on a HTC 10 where the names were properly displayed.

Comment 6

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

Bogdan, do you only see this with both release and beta installed?

Comment 7

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Hello, I had both Release and Beta installed, tried uninstalling one or the other on the devices but that didn't change how the names were displayed.

Comment 8

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

And if you uninstall both first and then only reinstall one of them?

Comment 9

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

@Jan, the name is displayed correctly in that case.

Comment 10

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Some additional information of things that I noticed while testing this:
 - while both Beta and Release are running all battery usage was logged for only one of the applications (in my case Beta since it was the first one that I launched)
 - the name for the app is properly displayed until I close and reopen the other app and battery usage starts being logged for the other application

Comment 11

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

[triage] Non-critical – users must have two versions of Firefox installed, including a pre-release version (beta), which is unlikely. Beta users are expected to be more tech savvy too.

Comment 12

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