960037 - Page titles not being shared to many applications

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140108094101

Steps to reproduce:

I've found that if I share a page to twitter, often if the URL is long, the page title won't be shared, but if I share it to WhatsApp and copy the message, both the title and the URL would've been within the 140 character limit. We should always share the page title if possible.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Twitter is not the only application I see where we don't share a page title. For example, Android's Messaging (SMS) client will only receive a URL, but Gmail will receive a title for the subject line in a newly composed email; same with . Google Hangouts is another application where the page title is not shared.

Perhaps with our recent share work, we can consider improving what we share in our intents? Tracking?

Comment 2

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

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> Twitter is not the only application I see where we don't share a page title.
> For example, Android's Messaging (SMS) client will only receive a URL, but
> Gmail will receive a title for the subject line in a newly composed email;
> same with . Google Hangouts is another application where the page title is
> not shared.

When sharing, it is possible to share page title and page URL separately, and we do. The intent even has specific names for the data. For some reason these application don't use them.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/GeckoAppShell.java#1226

> Perhaps with our recent share work, we can consider improving what we share
> in our intents? Tracking?

Improving how? Dump page title and page URL into the same string?

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #2)
> > Perhaps with our recent share work, we can consider improving what we share
> > in our intents? Tracking?
> 
> Improving how? Dump page title and page URL into the same string?

EXTRA_SUBJECT → title + URL

What does Chrome do? Other apps? Are we the oddity here?

Comment 4

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

We are at least consistent with what the Android stock browser does: http://androidxref.com/4.4.2_r1/xref/packages/apps/Browser/src/com/android/browser/Controller.java#581

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Chrome on Android does what we do too.

Comment 6

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