1787752 - The "browser.firefox-view.view-count" pref is not incremented if the "Firefox View" page is accessed by any other method except the default pinned tab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect)

Description

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

Attachment: rec of the issue.gif

[Affected versions]:

• Firefox Nightly 106.0a1 - Build ID: 20220829094551

[Affected Platforms]:

• Windows 10 x64
• macOS 11.6.5
• Linux Mint 20.2 x64

[Prerequisites]:

• Have a Firefox profile created.

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Open the browser with the profile from the prerequisites.
2. Navigate to the "about:config" page and observe the "browser.firefox-view.view-count" pref value.
3. Open a new tab and navigate to "about:firefoxview" page.
4. Focus the "about:config" page and observe the "browser.firefox-view.view-count" pref value.

[Expected result]:

• The "browser.firefox-view.view-count" pref value has been incremented by 1.

[Actual result]:

• The "browser.firefox-view.view-count" pref value was not incremented.

[Additional Notes]:

• This issue is also reproducible if the "about:firefoxview" is accessed from a new window or a non-default Firefox View tab is focused.
• Attached a screen recording of the issue.

Comment 1

[Meg Viar [:mviar]]

@niklas you mentioned in patch D155432 that we aren't exposing about:firefoxview. Do you have any thoughts on whether tracking visits to about:firefoxview outside of the default tab is worth the engineering effort?

Comment 2

[Niklas Baumgardner [:niklas]]

That's correct. Technically the only entry point to FxView is the FxView button.
We do a lot of special things for the FxView tab (not showing in tab strip, not adding to closed tabs or session restore, the notification dot only cares about the special tab, and more) so we should only count the interactions with the FxView button

Comment 3

[Meg Viar [:mviar]]

@mcoman, based on the response above are you comfortable with me marking this issue resolved?

Comment 4

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

Hi, Meg! Sure, based on the Niklas comment I think we can mark this as Resolved.