690134 - Fennec shows non-interactive UI on firstrun instead of splash screen

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Steps to reproduce (on Android 2.x):
1. Uninstall and reinstall Fennec, or choose "Clear Data" in the Android application settings.
2. Start Fennec.

Expected results: A splash screen with the application logo appears during startup on first-run, and a non-interactive UI screenshot appears during startup on later runs (bug 687312).

Actual result: The non-interactive UI appears during startup on first run.

Tested using 20110928 Nightly on Galaxy Tab 7" (Android 2.2).

Comment 1

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

Attachment: patch

The folder I was using as a trigger now always exists by the time the splashscreen code runs. Bug 688692 fixed the folders used by the crash reporter.

So, I changed to use a folder that only the GeckoApp code controls: "components"

This fixes the bug. If anyone has a better idea, I am all ears. Remember, the profile folder itself could be on the sdcard, so we can't assume it's always in files/profile

We could try to check both locations?

This patch works for now.

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Comment on attachment 563378 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r=mbrubeck

Also requesting approval for Aurora 9.  This is a safe Android-only change that fixes a highly visible regression (app appears to hang for a long time during first run) by just replacing one string literal that tells us which directory's existence to check during startup.

Comment 3

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

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/4320fd88ed15

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4320fd88ed15

Comment 5

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/2424db0f3fb4

Comment 6

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20110930 Firefox/10.0a1 Fennec/10.0a1
Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:9.0a2) Gecko/20110930 Firefox/9.0a2 Fennec/9.0a2

Comment 7

[u88484]

I didn't see this bug until a few days ago and I'm guessing the checkin here caused it.  Now when I start Fennec I'm immediately shown a non-interactive UI instead of the splash screen.  I did not experience this until a few days ago after an update.

EVO4G running Cyanogen mod 7.1.0-rc1 android 2.3.4

Comment 8

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

(In reply to Kurt Schultz (supernova_00) from comment #7)
> I didn't see this bug until a few days ago and I'm guessing the checkin here
> caused it.  Now when I start Fennec I'm immediately shown a non-interactive
> UI instead of the splash screen.  I did not experience this until a few days
> ago after an update.
> 
> EVO4G running Cyanogen mod 7.1.0-rc1 android 2.3.4

Correct. This is as designed. How long do you stare at the static UI?

Comment 9

[u88484]

After an update and also after a reboot it is just over 5 seconds