Closed
Bug 1481089
Opened 7 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
Clicking on Add-ons -> Get Add-ons > Learn More does nothing - should be removed
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: emoore, Assigned: sancus)
References
Details
Using either Thunderbird 52.9.1 or the 20180731173940 build of version 60 under Windows 10 if I go to tools -> add-ons -> get add-ons and click on "learn more" near the top of the tab it does nothing. I expected it to display help/tutorial information instead. One reason why I expected that is there is a icon on the left side of the non-existent link that looks like the start button in a YouTube video.
Updated•7 years ago
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Summary: Clicking on learn more does nothing → Clicking on Add-ons -> Get Add-ons > Learn More does nothing
Comment 1•7 years ago
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Verified on Linux, Ubuntu 16.04 and Thunderbird 60 (esr). What is it supposed to do?
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Comment 2•7 years ago
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It's supposed to open a video. It works on the Seamonkey discovery pane, but not the TB one: https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/discovery/pane/60.0/WINNT
I don't know why, and I suspect this has been broken for many years, as I believe there was also supposed to be another video in the center blank space to begin with.
We should probably do something else with this page at some point, I don't think this specific link is worth the time to fix as I don't think that video has value to TB users.
I actually think this page would be a good place to start building our own addons front-end that isn't part of addons-server, as eventually that will become unmaintainable for us. I'm pretty sure this page can be rebuilt as a static page that uses the addons-server API and then that could be pointed at any other API service in the future when the need arises and we have a replacement for addons-server.
Comment 3•7 years ago
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Probably because TB has JS disabled. How is the link for the "Learn more" created?
Comment 4•7 years ago
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The existing video is not really good for what we're doing anyway. We should look at replacement material or remove that entirely.
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Comment 5•7 years ago
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TB doesn't have JS disabled for that page, it just errors. It has the same error in Firefox as well. The TB page is: https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/discovery/pane/60.0/WINNT
But yeah, agreed with Ryan.
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Comment 6•6 years ago
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This is a website issue and I've refiled it in the ATN website issue tracker, and am closing this.
See: https://github.com/thundernest/addons-server/issues/31
Assignee: nobody → sancus
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Updated•6 years ago
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Component: General → Add-Ons: General
Comment 7•6 years ago
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Even if something should be changed on ATN, unless that is happening real soon the current horrible UX should justify removing the UI.
Perhaps Bug 1070496 - Add-ons manager's 'Get Add-ons' discovery pane with empty areas - could be touched at the same time?
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
See Also: → 295462
Summary: Clicking on Add-ons -> Get Add-ons > Learn More does nothing → Clicking on Add-ons -> Get Add-ons > Learn More does nothing - should be removed
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Comment 8•6 years ago
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I'm confused about why you reopened this? This link is on a website, so it's filed on github. There's literally nothing to be changed in Thunderbird.
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Comment 9•6 years ago
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This link is now gone.
https://github.com/thundernest/addons-server/commit/48905ca3642afea628139ea7f2f6174c3ba6c249
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago → 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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