1435420 - Uninstalling desktop shortcut for PWA uninstalls Firefox!

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), enhancement, P5)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

I have decided to remove Twitter PWA shortcut from my desktop on Android. I should say "remove", but I said "uninstall" (hoping that all superfluous metadata get cleaned as well). Dialog asked for confirmation whether I am certain I want to uninstall the application (without saying which one), and to my surprise Firefox got uninstalled not just Twitter PWA.

a) Could that "Are you sure?" dialog say WHICH application is going to be uninstalled?
b) Uninstallation of one PWA shouuld not lead to removal of whole Firefox.

Comment 1

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

Hello,

Could you please give some more information? I have tried the scenario you are describing in Nightly, Beta and Release but only the PWA was removed.

What kind of device and android version are you using?
What are the exact steps you have followed to uninstall the PWA?

Comment 2

[Matěj Cepl]

FF 58 (downloaded via https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/ from https://download.mozilla.org/?product=fennec-latest&os=android&lang=multi, because nobody cares about bug 1192279) on LG G4 Android 6.0.

Comment 3

[Matěj Cepl]

Oh, sorry, reproduction steps (using most likely com.lge.launcher2 as my desktop manager):

1. drag icon of PWA on desktop to the top of the desktop on the icon "Odinstalovat" (Uninstall)
2. confirm uninstallation

Comment 4

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

 You have 2 options there, Uninstall and Remove. When dragging the app over uninstall it does say "This app and associated widgets will be uninstalled. Uninstall?" That is the universal message for all of the apps associated with your android device, but might be misleading in some cases.

 The issue here is that only remove or remove shortcut should be displayed, not the message provided by the android OS version on your device.
 This seems to be restricted to LG devices only since on other devices that I've tested you only have the option to remove the shortcut, not uninstall the app trough the shortcut.

Comment 5

[Matěj Cepl]

It's possible we can blame that LG desktop manager, true.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.