1565554 - Show an empty message bar in recent updates page when empty

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Worcester12345]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Steps to reproduce:

Go to about:addons
TRY to click on "View Recent Updates"

Actual results:

Nothing happens. Can not select "View Recent Updates"

Expected results:

It should have clicked on "View Recent Updates", then displayed the date and time most recent updates happened.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0 ID:20190708182549

Comment 1

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

STR:

1. Open about:addons/Add-ons Manager
2. Press "Tools for all add-ons" (gearwheel) button
3. Press "View Recent Updates" item in menu
   and see that "Recent Updates" tab shows nothing

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

WFM in Nightly on Windows.

Comment 3

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

If you install a new add-on does it show up? If nothing has been installed or updated in the last 48 hours it's expected to be empty.

Comment 4

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Sounds like this is expected behavior for now, but maybe we should show something like "No new updates in the last 48 hours" if that's the case, to avoid users thinking maybe there's a bug or if they expect it to behave like a permanent history of all updates.

Comment 5

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to Mark Striemer [:mstriemer] from comment #3)

If you install a new add-on does it show up? If nothing has been installed or updated in the last 48 hours it's expected to be empty.

Noscript updated, and it now shows under "View recent updates". The fact that you couldn't even select it before was confusing, and looked broken.

(In reply to Liz Henry (:lizzard) (use needinfo) from comment #4)

Sounds like this is expected behavior for now, but maybe we should show something like "No new updates in the last 48 hours" if that's the case, to avoid users thinking maybe there's a bug or if they expect it to behave like a permanent history of all updates.

If that is the case, then "WONTFIX" this bug, and create a new one to do that. Preferable would be all updates, or make it consistent with the update history of Firefox itself. It should be the same behavior, for consistency.

Thanks.