620384 - Set Start page fails on HTC Desire

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ioana Chiorean]

Attachment: start page wrong but

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:2.0b9pre)
Gecko/20101220 Firefox/4.0b9pre Fennec/4.0b4pre 
Device HTC Desire A8181

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to www.google.com -> Slide to left ->Go to Start page and choose use current page
2. Kill the application 
3. Start the application -> Actual 1)
4. Go to litmus.mozilla.org -> Slide to left ->Go to Start page and choose use current page
5. Kill the application 
6. Start the application -> Actual 2)
7. Slide to left -> Go to Start page and choose blank page -> Actual 3

Expected result:
- the changes should be made as set.

Actual result:
- Actual 1) Application choose correctly Google as hoem page
- Actual 2) Application remains with Google as home page
- Actual 3) 50% of the cases the button changes as in the attached photo

Note:
- see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOueY8_SnTU
- see attached photo
- some of the cases litmus is taken as home page but can't be modified with other setting

Comment 1

[Ayan Shah[:ashah]]

why is it marked it as a blocking minus, especially when its a regression bug?

Comment 2

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

(In reply to comment #1)
> why is it marked it as a blocking minus, especially when its a regression bug?

Regression from what? The reason we blocking- this bug was because it's not 100% repeatable and killing the application after setting a preference is not a typical use case. We think the app does not have a chance to save the prefs to disk before getting killed.

blocking- means we would take a patch to fix this bug, but it's not a priority for fennec 4.0

Comment 3

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

I should note that if anyone feels this bug happens a lot, and is not hard to recreate using normal usage, we'd change the blocking flag

Comment 4

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

Still an issue? No reports, so I am closing.