785456 - Gracefully handle multiple app manifests being hosted from the same domain

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 778279

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect)

Description

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

STR:
1. Install QR Code Generator.
2. Verify that QR Code Generator shows up on the Your Apps dashboard.
3. Install Unofficial Twitter.
4. The Your Apps dashboard only shows the Twitter apps.

Actual results:
Only the Twitter (second installed) app is listed on the Your Apps dashboard.

Expected resutls:
Both the QR Code Generator and Twitter apps should be listed on the Your Apps dashboard.

Nightly 2012-08-24
Samsung Galaxy S2 ICS 4.0.4

Comment 1

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This is a bug in the mini-mart. We are enforcing one-app per domain in Fennec (right now) and I had to cheat with these apps and host them from the same one. We should fix one app per domain (there a bug that is eluding me right now for that).

Comment 2

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

(In reply to Wesley Johnston (:wesj) from comment #1)
> We are enforcing one-app per domain in Fennec (right now)
> and I had to cheat with these apps and host them from the
> same one. We should fix one app per domain (there a bug
> that is eluding me right now for that).

The MDN documentation states that one app per domain is the desired behavior:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Getting_Started#Same_origin_policy

I'm assuming this means the developer of multiple apps will have to make sure they do not host multiple manifests from the same domain. However, we really don't have control over whether they do or not.

Therefore, to be defensive, we should either block the installation of multiple apps from the same domain or prompt the user that the new installation will overwrite the old. Reopening under this premise.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Already have a bug on that. Duping on it.