Closed Bug 685271 Opened 13 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Absolutely no feedback after clicking "Add to Firefox" on an extension page

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: joe, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Keywords: polish)

I clicked "Add to Firefox" on the given URL on my tablet in Nightly, and absolutely nothing happened, so I clicked it three or four more times (figuring that the click hadn't registered). After the network loads finished, I got a series of overlapping installation confirmation dialogs, each making the webpage darker and darker due to their semi-opaque background colour. We should have some form of UI showing that something is happening; failing that, we should not let it be possible to have multiple overlapping extension installation confirmation dialogs.
The add-on system needs to download most of the add-on before showing the "Install this Add-on?" UI. This add-on is >1.3MB, so the download time hurts. It would be nice not to start the download again: * Can the add-ons manager "sense" this somehow? * Can AMO disable the button for a few seconds after it starts the install from the webpage?
Keywords: polish
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Adding Mossop for any add-on manager advice
We are likely switching back to the old style of showing confirmation UI before download in Firefox but that is going through UX discussions right now. One simple thing here would be to just show some visual feedback same as we do in Firefox already, we send out the "addon-install-started" observer notification when downloads from web-initiated downloads start.
Priority: -- → P5
Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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