Closed Bug 966491 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Firefox not registering with Google Phone Search in KitKat (Android 4.4)

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
General
Version:
29 Branch
Platform:
ARM
Android
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(fennec+)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
fennec + ---

People

(Reporter: aaronmt, Assigned: jdover)

References

Details

(Keywords: reproducible, Whiteboard: [kitkat]) 

Firefox (and all channels) are missing from the Google Phone Search in KitKat (Android 4.4)
Assignee: nobody → jdover
tracking-fennec: ? → +
Its also quite possible that simply the old functionality is not supported anymore in KitKat (or the latest version of Google Search for Android).
Google has removed global search due to performance reasons in [1] and App Indexing does not fit our use case at all as it uses meta tags web pages that Google itself indexes to allow deep linking from Google search results. As far as I have found, global search is still a system-level permission that Google's apps can access [2].

Movement to close this bug?

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/QuickSearchBox/+/ecf356c15143ab0583c64682de16d94a57f7dd1c
[2] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/core/res/AndroidManifest.xml (scroll to line 2351)
Flags: needinfo?(mark.finkle)
Closing due to new permissioning in KitKat :(
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Flags: needinfo?(mark.finkle)
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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