1550464 - The "Recommended by Pocket" title wrongly remains displayed after the "Pocket" 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 by pocket section title.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 "Recommended by Pocket" section.
3. Open a "New Tab" and observe the displayed sections.

[Expected result]:

• The following sections are displayed:
  • In-content "Search Bar"
  • The "Special FxA" snippet

[Actual result]:

• The title of the "Recommended by Pocket" is also displayed under the "Special FxA" snippet.

[Regression window]:
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

[Notes]:

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

Comment 1

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

It seems that we received the same pushlog as for Bug 1550447. Ed, could you please take a look at this one as well?