1794616 - [Bug]: FIDO2 is not working in Mozilla Firefox Debug, release and Nightly apk from source code

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(GeckoView :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

From github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/27367.

Steps to reproduce

Download the source code, Generate an apk through debug, release and nightly.

Enter the url: try-webauthn.appspot.com.

Click Register a credential button,

Expected behaviour

Registration should be successful and authenticator such as biometric dialog should open.

Actual behaviour

But registration not happened and biometric authentication not happened. Instead it displays an error as

"The operation was aborted"

Device name

Vivo X70 Pro Plus, Nexus

Android version

Android 12, Android 11, Android 10

Firefox release type

Firefox Nightly

Firefox version

107.0a1 (Build#2015909251)

Device logs

It throws an error as:

2022-10-11 18:02:15.313 11913-11913/? W/WebAuthnTokenManager: Failed to launch activity:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No delegate attached
at org.mozilla.geckoview.GeckoRuntime.startActivityForResult(GeckoRuntime.java:46)
at org.mozilla.geckoview.WebAuthnTokenManager.lambda$makeCredential$2(WebAuthnTokenManager.java:5)
at org.mozilla.geckoview.WebAuthnTokenManager.$r8$lambda$lxV1Gw97OXmWk5F1S1TWNMYm1hg(Unknown Source:0)
at org.mozilla.geckoview.WebAuthnTokenManager$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.onSuccess(Unknown Source:4)
at com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzm.run(com.google.android.gms:play-services-tasks@@18.0.1:18)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:233)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:334)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8278)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:582)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1065)

Similarly when clicked Authenticate,

2022-10-11 15:30:35.036 13439-13439/? W/WebAuthnTokenManager: Failed to get FIDO intent
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No delegate attached
at org.mozilla.geckoview.GeckoRuntime.startActivityForResult(GeckoRuntime.java:46)
at org.mozilla.geckoview.WebAuthnTokenManager.lambda$getAssertion$6(WebAuthnTokenManager.java:5)
at org.mozilla.geckoview.WebAuthnTokenManager.$r8$lambda$UTHifykiJMrgE92X3BsFw0xcqnE(Unknown Source:0)
at org.mozilla.geckoview.WebAuthnTokenManager$$ExternalSyntheticLambda2.onSuccess(Unknown Source:4)
at com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzm.run(com.google.android.gms:play-services-tasks@@18.0.1:18)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:233)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:334)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8278)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:582)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1065)

Additional information

No response

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Comment 1

[Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]]

This is intentional. Our Webauthn feature uses FIDO2 Google APIs so we've limited that feature to release builds only. If you want to test it locally in a debug build, you can remove the release flag check around WebAuthnFeature.