808297 - Android service-based updater needs to be more tolerant against network failures

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Stache]

The Android service-based updater fails far too easily for a mobile device with spotty network connectivity. My phone has the tendency to drop the Wifi connection while downloading bigger files (don't ask! :-[), so the update notification just shows something along the lines of "Update download failed, tap to retry".

When downloading the .apk using Google Chrome from nightly.mozilla.org it manages to recover and continue the download after these drops, and so should Firefox. I think the Download Manager of Firefox/Android has the same issue, btw.

(Someone please make this block bug 786380.)

Comment 1

[Thomas Stache]

So I noticed that the Toolkit update service was extended in similar vein in bug 791829 for B2G. I suspect that doesn't help Firefox/Android? At least you can look at their strategy...

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.