1550447 - The "Recommended by Pocket" cards are no longer displayed if the "Top Sites" section is disabled from the "about:preferences#home" page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1550053

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

Attachment: rec of the issue.gif

[Affected versions]:

• Firefox Nightly 68.0a1, Build ID 20190509033505

[Affected Platforms]:

• All Windows
• All Linux
• All Mac

[Prerequisites]:

• Have the "browser.search.region" pref's value set to "US" in the "about:config" page.

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Open the browser with the profile from prerequisites.
2. Navigate to the "about:preferences#home" page and uncheck the "Top Sites" section.
3. Open a "New Tab" and observe the "Recommended by Pocket" section.

[Expected result]:

• All cards from the "Recommended by Pocket" section are correctly displayed.

[Actual result]:

• No cards are displayed and the "Oops, something went wrong loading this content. Refresh page to try again" user-friendly message is displayed.

[Regression window]:

• This issue seems to be a regression because is not reproducible with the Firefox Nightly build from 07/05/2019. I will return with a regression window later.

[Notes]:

• This issue is reproducible after refresh or browser restart.
• Attached a screen recording of the issue.

Comment 1

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

Considering the fact that the issue is not reproducible with the Firefox Nightly build from 07/05/2019, using the mozregression tool I've found the following regression window:

Last good revision: 63d77dbcfda80e420a7e35c2b4244a7a67a5bef2
First bad revision: 65a693623cee0837b4ad0d23241c84cd3ea23e3a
Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=63d77dbcfda80e420a7e35c2b4244a7a67a5bef2&tochange=65a693623cee0837b4ad0d23241c84cd3ea23e3a

I've run the process twice and each time I've received the same pushlog.

Ed, could you please give us your opinion about this?