943435 - Misleading error message "Not Updated for Firefox 25" on Firefox mobile

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Daniel Naber]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131115110311

Steps to reproduce:

Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/languagetoolfx/ with Firefox mobile


Actual results:

A get a red bar saying "Not Updated for Firefox 25" and the add-on cannot be installed.


Expected results:

A message that says that this add-on doesn't support mobile Firefox.

In other words: If a user visits an add-on page with Firefox mobile but the add-on doesn't support mobile browsers, they get a misleading error message "Not Updated for {0} {1}", e.g. "Not Updated for Firefox 25". That sounds as if the add-on wasn't up-to-date, when in fact it works fine on Firefox 25 desktop, but not on mobile.

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/