1933032 - adding "ebay.com" shortcut to homescreen causes it to launch in a very strange fullscreen sort of way without user having granted such permission anywhere?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1807425

(Firefox for Android :: Media, defect)

Description

[Dan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:132.0) Gecko/132.0 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

Add homescreen shortcut for ebay.com
Tap on that shortcut.

Actual results:

A very weird kind of fullscreen view appears.

Expected results:

Should launch normally like when visiting eBay website manually

Comment 1

[Dan]

Video of issue: https://youtube.com/shorts/w0AgaPFFdTg

Comment 2

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Fenix::Media' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

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

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Comment 4

[Titouan Thibaud [:titouan]]

Hey Dan,
This is actually the intented behavior of the current feature, where, in the case of a PWA (progressive web app), it will be opened as a kind of standalone app.

What I understand from your bug report is that you would like to have two clear options in the case of PWA:

• "Install as an app" (which would keep the current behavior)
• Add a shortcut to this site on Home screen

Is it correct?

Comment 5

[Dan]

Exactly!!!

Comment 6

[Dan]

Well???

Comment 7

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

This bug is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807425

Comment 8

[Dan]

Not really, as that bug was filed as an enhancement, not bug, right

Comment 9

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

Also see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1878020 for reverting to using "Install" instead of "Add to Homescreen" for PWAs.

Comment 10

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

(In reply to Dan from comment #8)

Not really, as that bug was filed as an enhancement, not bug, right

As Titoaun pointed out, the current behaviour is intentional (installing PWAs in standalone mode when specified by the developer), but the current wording is quite unclear and the option to add a shortcut does not exist for PWAs, which is what the above bugs are about.

Comment 11

[Titouan Thibaud [:titouan]]

Let's close this one as duplicate of Bug 1807425