1669689 - Dragging a link into about:addons page tries to install an addon

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

Attachment: about_addons.gif

Affected versions

• 83.0a1 (20201006161706)
• 82.0b8 (20201006142214)
• 81.0.1 (20200930150533)

Affected platforms

• Windows 10x64
• macOS 10.12
• Ubuntu 18.04

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Firefox and about:addons.
2. Drag a random link into about:addons page.

Expected result

• The link is opened in the same tab.

Actual result

• Firefox tries to install an addon.

Regression range

• Pushlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=b38e8adb53185e985e3006c96a357abeef380a67&tochange=2009a877d90f1a5c1f526243f5dbf4940706fea2

Notes

• Attached a screen recording.

Suggested Severity: S3

Comment 1

[Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]]

Hi Alexandru,
The behavior described in comment 0 looks like the intended behavior that was supported by the XUL-based about:addons in Firefox < 68, then regressed as part of the HTML about:addons rewrite and restored by Bug 1559392.

May I also ask if the were other particular reasons behind this QA verification?
is it something you did notice while working on the QA verification of an unrelated feature and decided to file it or something you were QA verify explicitly for other reasons?

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Follows some other notes about the current behavior and other possible approaches to make it more clear for the user:

The current behavior should be the exact same one that was implemented in the XUL-based about:addons, but Mark and I discussed about it during Bug 1559392 and we also thought that it was likely going to be confusing in some cases (especially for non-technical users that are not going to install an addon using drag and drop that often) and Mark did file Bug 1626835.

Bug 1626835 proposed approach is to provide a more clear visual feedback which is meant to make it more clear to the user what to expect to happen when dropping an url into about:addons.

(as an additional side note, the user should still be able to navigate the about:addons tab to a drag and dropped url if it is dropped on the urlbar instead of the about:addons page itself).

Comment 2

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

(In reply to Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco] from comment #1)

Hi Alexandru,
The behavior described in comment 0 looks like the intended behavior that was supported by the XUL-based about:addons in Firefox < 68, then regressed as part of the HTML about:addons rewrite and restored by Bug 1559392.

May I also ask if the were other particular reasons behind this QA verification?
is it something you did notice while working on the QA verification of an unrelated feature and decided to file it or something you were QA verify explicitly for other reasons?

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Hi Luca Greco,
There is no particular reason behind this QA verification. This was noticed mistakenly while being on about:addons page. I wasn't quite sure about the expected behavior regarding the dragging of a random link on the page and I decided to file this bug.

Thank you for the detailed information and for the fast response.
I will close this as Invalid regarding that this is indeed the expected behavior.