1903912 - Unconditionally register the "close synced tabs" capability with FxA

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Fenix :: Accounts and Sync, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Lina Butler [:lina]]

Currently, the remote-tab-management.close-tabs-enabled feature variable controls both (1) whether Fenix registers the capability to receive close tabs commands in the current FxA device record, and (2) whether to show the "close" button for tabs on capable devices in the synced tabs tray.

Mark suggested changing the feature variable to just control (2), and do (1) unconditionally. In other words, all versions of Fenix 129+ would support receiving "close tabs" commands, and act on them (including showing a status bar notification, and actually closing the tabs), but would not show the "close" button for any tabs in the synced tabs tray unless remote-tab-management.close-tabs-enabled == true.

Comment 1

[Mark Hammond (PTO; back Oct-3) [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Bug 1903954 is the same for desktop. To be clear, I do not think we should have done this initially, but IMO it makes sense now that we are committed to landing this feature on the current train, because it will make testing of the feature much easier for users.

Comment 2

[Mark Hammond (PTO; back Oct-3) [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Attachment: Bug 1903912 - Unconditionally register the "close synced tabs" capability with FxA. r?lina

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/fec6134e2f3e
Unconditionally register the "close synced tabs" capability with FxA. r=lina,android-reviewers,skhan

Comment 4

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fec6134e2f3e