708574 - Fennec installation creates two entries in the Android application launcher - regression from bug 705572

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Catalin Suciu [:csuciu]]

Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111206 Firefox/9.0 Fennec/9.0
Device: Samsung GalaxyS
OS: Android 2.2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download and install Firefox9 Beta5  
2. After installation ends open the phone's Applications menu and check for the Firefox Beta shortcut.  

Expected Result:
There is only one functional shortcut for Firefox Beta in Applications menu

Actual Result:
There are two entries for Firefox Beta. 
1. Tapping on the first shortcut will open Firefox Beta properly. 
2. "Quitting" this instance of Fennec and trying to open again from the second shortcut will result in a Fennec crash (The application Firefox Beta(process org.mozilla.firefox_beta)has stopped unexpectedly.Please try again) - no crash submitted.

Comment 1

[Catalin Suciu [:csuciu]]

Attachment: aLog

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

On tap of the second shortcut:

E/AndroidRuntime(10006): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.mozilla.firefox_beta/org.mozilla.gecko.VideoPlayer}: java.lang.NullPointerException
W/ActivityManager( 2715):   Force finishing activity org.mozilla.firefox_beta/org.mozilla.gecko.VideoPlayer
W/ActivityManager( 2715): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{40821738 org.mozilla.firefox_beta/org.mozilla.gecko.VideoPlayer}

Comment 3

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

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #2)
> On tap of the second shortcut:
> 
> E/AndroidRuntime(10006): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start
> activity
> ComponentInfo{org.mozilla.firefox_beta/org.mozilla.gecko.VideoPlayer}:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> W/ActivityManager( 2715):   Force finishing activity
> org.mozilla.firefox_beta/org.mozilla.gecko.VideoPlayer
> W/ActivityManager( 2715): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{40821738
> org.mozilla.firefox_beta/org.mozilla.gecko.VideoPlayer}

Bug 708283

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

It looks like this bug was also fixed by the patch in bug 708283.

Clearing tracking flags; we will track this in bug 708283 instead.

Comment 5

[Catalin Suciu [:csuciu]]

Verified fixed on fennec 9.0b5 build2:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111208 Firefox/9.0 Fennec/9.0
Device: Samsung GalaxyS
OS: Android 2.2