1468338 - Firefox Sync doesn't give the opportunity to change the international prefix number while connecting a smartphone to sync devices

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Cloud Services :: Server: Firefox Accounts, defect)

Description

[alessandro.boss21]

Attachment: Schermata del 2018-06-08 10-54-28.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180517113603

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create a Firefox Sync account
2) Try to connect a second device
3) Change the international prefix number (+XX) with another one.
4) insert the rest of the phone number
5) Click on "send" button.


Actual results:

The form becomes red and the description of the error is: "Invalid phone number"


Expected results:

It should accept phone numbers from countries different from the one identified by the IP address.
It should send a message to the phone number inserted.

Comment 1

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Alex, do we deliberately restrict to numbers from the geolocation of the IP as a UX or security measure? I don't recall the details of why it is this way.

Comment 2

[Shane Tomlinson [:stomlinson]]

(In reply to Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly] from comment #1)

Alex, do we deliberately restrict to numbers from the geolocation of the IP as a UX or security measure? I don't recall the details of why it is this way.

No, we do it because it was the easiest to implement w/o trying to iterate through the list of countries to find a possible match. It was the easiest path forward to getting the feature shipped.

Comment 3

[Stuart]

Just encountered this problem myself. While registering I'm only allowed enter a German number. +49 seems to be hardcoded. But I still use the mobile number I've used for 20+ years from another EU country. Roaming is free in the EU.