2020989 - "Weather data is not available right now message" is shown on Weather widget with the v150 Newtab addon installed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

Found in

• Firefox 148.0

Affected versions

• Firefox 148.0

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 26.3, Windows 11, Ubuntu 24.04

Preconditions

• Have the latest newtab addon installed
• Have the following prefs set:
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.enabled - True
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.weatherForecast.enabled - True
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.system.showWeather - True
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.weather.display - Detailed

Steps to reproduce

1. Access NTP
2. See the Weather Widget

Expected result

• The weather data for the location is correctly shown inside the widget.

Actual result

• The following message is shown "Weather data is not available right now".

Additional notes

• The issue can be seen in the following attachment

Comment 1

[Maxx Crawford [:maxx]]

Attachment: Bug 2020989 - Change MerinoClient.sys.mjs shim to target Firefox 148 r?#home-newtab-reviewers

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/f444dd2eb905
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/62dde57776bb
Change MerinoClient.sys.mjs shim to target Firefox 148 r=home-newtab-reviewers,nbarrett

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/9677c8fc008f
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6f646b63979a
Change MerinoClient.sys.mjs shim to target Firefox 148 r=home-newtab-reviewers,nbarrett

Comment 5

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6f646b63979a

Comment 6

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

Since nightly and release are affected, beta will likely be affected too.
For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 7

[Silaghi Andreea]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/62dde57776bb

Comment 8

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

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:maxx, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
  • See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Requesting_an_Uplift for documentation on how to request an uplift.
• If no, please set status-firefox149 to wontfix.

For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 9

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Setting Fx148 and Fx149 since this is in the extensions code and can train hop