1456152 - Add-on hamburger menu items are not loaded after phone reboot

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1414084

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

Description

[KotW]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180323154952

Steps to reproduce:

In all versions of Firefox for Android (main, beta, nightly), after rebooting my Android phone with Firefox running in the background, or when Firefox is updated (via Google Play or through Nightly's own updater), when the program is started back up, no contextual hamburger menu elements that are specific to add-ons (i.e. context menus populated by uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, HTTPS Everywhere) are loaded in the menu at all. 

A force stop of Firefox is required every time to make the application re-populate these items after update or restart of the phone. 




Actual results:

This has been an ongoing issue for however long, at the very least since FF52 if not before that - before I got a new phone, a simple redraw of the application (changing device rotation/orientation) would drop all these menu elements from the hamburger menu and a force stop would be needed to repopulate them.

Now, with a device with more memory, I experience the add-on menu depopulation only when the device is restarted or the application updated. The issue remains ongoing as of FF Nightly 61.0a1 (2018-04.23).


Expected results:

Access to add-on functionality should be available in the hamburger menu at all times - after updates and restarts, even if Firefox is already partially loaded in device memory. 

Not all add-ons provide an interface to their full functionality from the add-ons menu, and as such, the contextual hamburger menu items are essential to proper usage.

The issue clearly has to do with the way Firefox is retained in the memory partially - and how it is reloaded. My previous reported issues with device rotation on my previous Android device clearly have to do with the selfsame issue.