803796 - Implement non-fatal assertion and error message instead of crashing for unsupported devices

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[Scoobidiver (away)]

ARMv7 devices with an unsupported GPU make Firefox crash on startup for various reasons:
* OpenGL ES 2.0 not supported: bug 778175
* OpenGL ES 2.0 supported but Vivante GPU driver bug: bug 771774
* OpenGL ES 2.0 supported but unknown graphic driver bug: bug 783196

We should blocklist them like in bug 775237 for ARMv6 devices.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

I believe we blocked all devices we could find in the play store that were crashing. There are a non-zero number of devices that do not have a play store entry thus cannot be blocked. There was a suggestion of having the assertion be non-fatal and providing some error message.

Comment 2

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Attachment: Devices with only crashes on abort in 17.0 Beta 12_18-10-2012

Based on https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2012-10-18/2012-10-18.fennecandroid.beta.17.0.devices.weekly.html#devices, I created an ODS document where I kept devices (ARMv6 & ARMv7) with only crashes on abort (unable to distinguish startup/non-startup crashes and to know the abort message) and filtered those with more than 10 crashes.

Comment 3

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Brad - what do you think of getting someone to follow through with comment 1's suggestion of having a non-fatal assertion and error message?  Would this be something that could also be rolled into handling for unsupported ARMv6 devices (thus, something probably desirable for 17)?

Comment 4

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Not tracking 17, we block list these things in the market for release, not in the product.

Comment 5

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

filter on [mass-p5]

Comment 6

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