880207 - Reader Mode: No reader mode icon is present on HTC Desire Z (Android 2.3.3)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Reader View, defect)

Description

[Paul Feher]

Firefox for Android 22.0b4 (2013-05-06)
Aurora 23.0a2 (2013-05-06)
Nightly 24.0a1 (2013-05-06)
Devices: HTC Desire Z (Android 2.3.3)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Go to nytimes.com and open any article
2. Check for the Reader Mode icon on URL Bar.

Expected:
There should be a reader mode icon in the URL Bar

Actual:
There's no reader mode icon present in the URL Bar. Reader mode can't be accessed for this specific device.

OBS: This issue in not reproducible on other devices is only HTC Desire Z (Android 2.3.3) specific.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

The Desire Z is likely not meeting the memory threshold requirement. Please paste the MemTotal and MemFree values by running: $ adb shell cat /proc/meminfo

Comment 2

[Paul Feher]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> The Desire Z is likely not meeting the memory threshold requirement. Please
> paste the MemTotal and MemFree values by running: $ adb shell cat
> /proc/meminfo

This are the values on my device:

MemTotal:         377192 kB
MemFree:           17968 kB

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Our low memory threshold is 384MB bare minimum

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/base/nsMemoryImpl.cpp#25

Comment 4

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

If you want to force Reader to kick in, regardless of the memory level, use:
* about:config
* reader.parse-on-load.force-enabled = true