1782818 - Add COM Notification Server to MSIX packages.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Notifications and Alerts, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Native notifications for MSIX packages should use the COM notification server to handle relaunching Firefox when notifications are interacted with after Firefox has closed.

Now that https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/rMOZILLACENTRAL1bf6f44257d83deafd5ca47cb3067f95e26fae27 has landed, MSIX notifications display correctly, but firefox.exe is launched with the appended notification arguments instead of notificationserver.dll. This results in a new window opening with nonsensical tabs related to the launch arguments. Using the notification server should fix this.

Comment 1

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Attachment: Bug 1782818 - Use COM notification server for toast notifications in MSIX packages. r=nalexander,Jamie

This converges Windows native notification behavior across all installers to use the COM notification server.

This also fixes an issue where interacting with an MSIX notification opened a new window with new tabs correlated to the toast notification launch arguments. MSIX by default calls the application sending a notification with the provided launch arugments, which was an problem as we use launch arguments in the COM server to reconstruct the origin of a notification.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/db65aa1a08a0
Use COM notification server for toast notifications in MSIX packages. r=nalexander,Jamie

Comment 3

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/db65aa1a08a0