1908708 - Support the addons picker template in Spotlight modals / Feature Callouts

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Meg Viar [:mviar]]

At the moment, the addons picker template is not supported in the Spotlight context.

Enabling this template in Spotlight modals will likely include:

• Handling AWEnsureAddonInstalled in spotlight.js by adding:
  window.AWEnsureAddonInstalled = data => receive("ENSURE_ADDON_INSTALLED")(data);

• Adding support for the INSTALL_ADDON_FROM_URL special action in the Spotlight context. Currently, it receives the Spotlight dialog frame as the browser, rather than the underlying content page. This currently results in a hanging load wheel when you try to install an addon.

See also: Technical Plan for Addonns Picker in Onboarding

Comment 1

[Meg Viar [:mviar]]

Hi Courtney, is this something that might be useful soon? This will help up prioritize this work. We currently support the add-ons picker in about:welcome, but this patch would enable its use in Spotlight modals (and possibly feature callouts).

Comment 2

[C Gordon]

Hi, yes this is something I would like to prioritize for H2 of this year. This could have significant impact given the success seen with our prior add-ons experiments and on about:welcome. I've linked this bug to the FXE Jira ticket in my backlog (https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FXE-972).

Comment 3

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1908708 - Support AddonsPicker for Spotlights and FeatureCallouts