Closed Bug 936487 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

A way to enable/disable Firefox Accounts on FirefoxOS

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Identity, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Identity
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 929386

People

(Reporter: jedp, Assigned: jedp)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [qa+])

In case we have to switch this thing off in a hurry, we need a way to enable and disable Firefox Accounts in FirefoxOS both in gecko and in gaia. The current thinking is that we will have a pref in gecko, and a build-time parameter for gaia. Note that we will need a pref anyway for the firefox accounts url, just as we do for persona, to enable us to use different backend services for testing. (It would be possible to have a setting in gaia triggered by the gecko pref, but this would require modifications to the settings database, which we would prefer not to make.)
Whiteboard: [qa+]
If we get past November 22, we'll need to make sure that switch on/off code is also in Marketplace and WMF. LMK if that calls for a separate bug.
Jed, can we change the status on this one?
Yes, this is implemented in the patches in Bug 929386.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Nice. Can one of you add details here on how FxA would be enabled/disabled on the phone? Would this still require a code change and build that would become a dot release to a phone, for example? Or we this be an "on the phone" pref setting?
Please either dupe this to bug 929386 or wait until it lands on m-c before marking it FIXED.
Assignee: nobody → jparsons
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Depends on: 929386
Resolution: FIXED → ---
It's not possible to have a pref to disable the UI on the phone. Gaia can't access prefs; but furthermore, the inclusion of all the UI (Settings, FTU, etc.) is happening at build time. So there would have to be a build config to exclude FXA from the phone. Since FXA is committed to b2g 1.4, I don't think we need a way to disable on the device. It's not appearing in the 1.3 codebase, and so b2g builds with FXA would be deliberate anyway. But for nightly firefox, while we sort out the FXA features, we do need a gecko pref. That's what's provided in Bug 929386.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago → 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
OK. We are going the dupe route. Verified as such.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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