565464 - Fennec aggressively switches orientation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Build Id:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; Nokia N900; en-US; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100512 Namoroka/3.6.5pre Fennec/1.1b2pre


Note: this is pretty tricky to confirm

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to slowly move your device to a 45 degree angle and then back
2. Try to slowly move your device to a 60 degree angle and then back
3. Try to slowly move your device to a 90 degree angel and then back

Actual Results:
The orientation flips on steps 1-3

Expected Results:
The orientation only flips on step 3

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This is more persistent after e10s landed as the orientation switches at a 30 degree angel now as well.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Fennec doesn't actually watch for angles. Fennec listens for the OS to say "go portrait" or "go landscape". It's entirely up to the OS to determine what orientation is "portrait" or "landscape"

Fennec just listens and reacts

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

So, can we get some kinda of evangelism here to the Maemo guys saying that their new OS update might be causing this then? 1.2 seems to have made this worse.