1432499 - [Shield] "TotalURI" is no longer displayed (or incremented) after browser restart

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Shield :: Shield Study, defect)

Description

[Emil Pasca [:emilpasca]]

Attachment: shield_onrestart_issue_.gif

[Affected versions]:
- Firefox 58.0

[Affected Platforms]:
- All Windows
- All Mac
- All Linux

[Prerequisites]:
- Have a new Firefox profile.
- Have the following prefs. in the "about:config" page (If a preference does not exist, please create it):
	- “extensions.legacy.enabled” pref set to “true”;
	- “shield.test.variation” pref set to “linear-taar”;
	- “extensions.taarexpv2.profile-age-in-days-test-override” pref set to any value higher than 1 but lower than 10.

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Open the browser with the profile from prerequisites.
2. Install the latest "TAAR Experiment" from https://goo.gl/mg6ubo.
3. Open a new tab and navigate to wikipedia.org.
4. Open the browser console and observe the "TotalURI" value.
5. Restart the browser and navigate to any page.
6. Observe the "TotalURI" value in the browser console.
7. Open another page and observe the browser behaviour.

[Expected result]:
4. "TotalURI: 1" log is displayed in the Browser console.
6. "TotalURI: 2" log is displayed in the Browser console.
7. "TotalURI: 3" log is displayed in the Browser console and the "TAAR Experiment" doorhanger is opened.

[Actual result]:
4. "TotalURI: 1" log is displayed in the Browser console.
6. "TotalURI" log is not displayed (or incremented) in the Browser console.
7. "TotalURI" is not displayed in the Browser console and the "TAAR Experiment" doorhanger is not opened.

[Notes]:
- Attached a screen recording of the issue.

Comment 1

[fwollsen]

Great catch! Tracked in https://github.com/motin/taar-experiment-v2-shield-study/issues/9 and fixed in upcoming 1.0.1

Comment 2

[Emil Pasca [:emilpasca]]

This issue is no longer reproducible with the latest version of the "TAAR Experiment" add-on (1.0.1) installed, on the latest Firefox release. Verified on Windows 10 x64, Ubuntu 14.04 x64, and Mac 10.12.