1896677 - Home and newtab weather widget fetch might need a retry feature

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement)

Description

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

If the weather fetch fails, we don't try again until the next system tick/update.

We can add some retry logic that runs before waiting for the next system tick/update.

Comment 1

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: We intend to launch a weather experiment in 127. It should be a low risk, small set of changes.

If the weather data fetch fails a retry is very likely to work, and would reduce the number of errors the user sees. After retrying 3 times if we still don't have a successful response, then we should display the error.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug is marked as tracked for firefox127 (beta). However, the bug still isn't assigned.

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Comment 3

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

I think we're ok if this doesn't make it in, but it may be easy and we may get time this week. If so we might consider taking it.