808211 - Facebook did not prompt me to enable Facebook Messenger for Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Graveyard :: SocialAPI: Providers, defect)

Description

[Florian Bender]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121023124120

Steps to reproduce:

Visit facebook.com.


Actual results:

Nothing special.


Expected results:

Facebook should have promoted me to turn on its SocialAPI integration. At least this is what I heard and thus expected. I was able to install it manually via [1]. I just wanted to point this out. This might be related to addons (Adblock Plus?) – though I cannot cross-check this as I cannot remove the SocialAPI-App (or whatever it is called) in my build (this is fixed in another bug and probably in 17b4) and re-try with (some) addons disabled. However, this can just be a Facebook/server issue that I wasn't prompted (I'm on a Facebook server which always gets updated very late in a feature roll-out).  


[1] https://www.facebook.com/about/messenger-for-firefox

Comment 1

[Florian Bender]

This bug is mostly just a heads-up. If this is Facebook-server related issue, this bug is probably WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

For the moment, the promotion is only being sent to a small portion of users. That will increase gradually as we continue developing the feature. You can always activate manually from the landing page.

Comment 3

[Florian Bender]

Ok, great. I was a bit confused by the media coverage, though, as many recommended just visiting facebook.com and then automatically being prompted.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Yeah, there was some confusion about that initially. We fixed our blog post and had some of the bigger stories corrected, but not before many people got the wrong information.