1520816 - The Recommended by Pocket section is populated for a second after the restart, even if everything was previously dismissed

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P3)

Description

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

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[Affected versions]:

• Firefox 64.0.2
• Firefox 65.0b11
• Nightly 66.0a1

[Affected Platforms]:

• Windows 10 x64
• macOS 10.13
• Ubuntu 18.04 x64

[Prerequisites]:

• Have the Recommended by Pocket section activated (browser.search.region is set to US in about:config).

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Dismiss all stories from the Recommended by Pocket section.

• refresh the page a few times so that the sponsored articles are not displayed anymore.

2. Restart browser.

[Expected results]:

• The section is not populated.

[Actual results]:

• The section is populated for about a second than everything disappears.

[Regression range]:

• If this is a regression I will try to find as soon as possible a regression range.

Comment 1

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

I can't seem to find the regression for this build, because on Ubuntu the builds somewhere between 2018-06-25 and 2019 don't want to open if I download them .
I can't use regression because every time I restart the browser, it updates and the results I get are not correct.

I will leave this need info on myself. I will to find if this is a regression soon.

Comment 2

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

I tried to reproduce the issue the latest Nightly 67.0a1 and beta 66.0b4, but I can't seem to manage to do that.
After that I tried to reproduce the issue on the build I first discovered the issue on, I couldn't reproduce it anymore. Considering all of these I will take out the flags for needinfo and regressionwindow-wanted.

Comment 3

[Tim Spurway [:tspurway]]

setting as a p3 as the existing Pocket section is planned to be deprecated