685271 - Absolutely no feedback after clicking "Add to Firefox" on an extension page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

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.

Comment 1

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

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?

Comment 2

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

Adding Mossop for any add-on manager advice

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

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.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component