1895632 - Change the default setting for pull-to-refresh to disabled again

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android :: Browser Engine, task, P1)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Due to PTR bugs blocking meta bug 1882722 and user reports of problems, we should change PTR's default back to disabled. We previously disabled PTR by default in Fx 116 (bug 1847282) and then re-enabled it in Fx 124 (bug 18795830).

Can we selectively leave PTR enabled for users that manually enabled it in Fx <= 123 before we enabled by default for everyone in Fx 124 (bug 18795830)? Users who manually enabled it know what PTR is and how to find the setting to turn it on and off. If they were unhappy with PTR bugs, they would presumably turn it off.

If we can't selectively enable or disable it for some users, we should disable it for everyone. Users who know what PTR is can find the setting to turn it back on.

Comment 1

[Polly [:polly]]

Doesn't look like we have any way of knowing what a user's historical preference settings have been. So we would need to disable the feature by default for everyone.

If we make pull-to-refresh default to false for release builds, pull-to-refresh will be turned OFF for:

• release build new installs
• release build existing installs where the user has not interacted with the settings switch (which I think would include most people)

Pull-to-refresh will remain ON for:

• nightly / dev build new installs
• nightly / dev build existing installs where the user has not interacted with the settings switch
• release build existing installs where the user has switched pull-to-refresh on

Comment 2

[Polly [:polly]]

Attachment: Bug 1895632 - Change default setting for pull-to-refresh to false in release build.

Comment 3

[Polly [:polly]]

Attachment: Bug 1895632 - Part 2 - Store an extra setting when the user switches pull-to-refresh on.

This is stored separately to the main switch setting - as we sometimes manipulate that to turn the pull-to-refresh feature on or off by default.
In the future, this could help us find users who want to use pull-to-refresh even if other users are experiencing issues, and not disable the feature for them. (we don't need this extra switch - we can use the default value to get this behaviour)

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/77947807186b
Change default setting for pull-to-refresh to false in release build. r=android-reviewers,gl

Comment 5

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/77947807186b