971862 - Touch UI Start Tiles not clickable

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Firefox Start, defect)

Description

[mastacheata]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140127194636

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox 28 Beta in Windows 8 Touch mode and start a new tab.
The "start screen" lists some bookmarks, most and recently visited sites.
Now try to click one of these tiles using the touch input.

I've tried this using my Lenovo Thinkpad Helix in "Tablet only" mode without having the keyboard/docking station part of the hybrid attached.
The situation doesn't change if using the digitizer/pen input instead of the "finger-touch" input.


Actual results:

Nothing. The sites don't open, no error message appears, not the smallest sign that anything occurs at all.

When long-pressing, you can mark tiles and potentially remove them from the start screen, but that's not what I'm looking for


Expected results:

I would've expected the clicked/touched tile to open the corresponding website in the current tab, replacing the "start screen"

Comment 1

[mastacheata]

Just updated to FF28b3, but no change, the tiles still don't work.
I also just tried if this might be related to the touch input vs. keyboard/mouse input, but that didn't make a difference either.

Also: The computer from which I reported the issue is quite obviously not the same as the one that HAS the problem, so any of the UA and Build ID mentioned in the auto-created first comment should be irrelevant.

Comment 2

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

Can you try this on Nightly or Aurora (30 & 29 respectively?) I'm not seeing this on today's Nightly build. It would help me narrow down if this is just a beta only bug or something else.


Thanks!

Comment 3

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

Went through the following test cases for all the builds listed below:

- Ensured that you can tap on tiles under "Top Sites, Bookmarks and Recent History" (scrolled to different positions and ensured tiles were still working)
- Ensured that the tiles under all the categories can be taped on when opening a new tab via the overlay button and the "+" under the Navigation App Bar
- Created a bunch of "Recent History" and "Bookmarks" and ensured that all the tiles were still working
- Ensured that the tiles that have been created because under fxdesktop websites are working correctly when switching into fxmetro
- Went through all of the above test cases using several different variations of snapped view

Builds used:
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0b1/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0b2/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0b3/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0b4/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0b6/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0b7/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0b8/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2014-03-04-03-02-04-mozilla-central/ (couldn't reproduce issue)
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2014-03-04-00-40-03-mozilla-aurora/ (couldn't reproduce issue)

I don't think this is a wide spread issue or we would definitely be hearing about it by now. Tiles that are not working would be very noticeable.

mastacheata, are you receiving this issue on all your touch based machines/devices? Would you be able to download a BETA directly from one of the links above and see if it's still occurring? I couldn't reproduce the problem with my Surface Pro 2.

Comment 4

[mastacheata]

> mastacheata, are you receiving this issue on all your touch based machines/devices?
I only have this single touch-based PC-compatible device. (Of course I've got a Smartphone and my dad's got an iPad, but neither of these is going to help here)
I also don't know anyone else with a PC-based touch-device where I could try this.

> Would you be able to download a BETA directly from one of the links above and see if it's still occurring? 
I can still reproduce the issue with the beta releases. The nightly builds work fine now. (The last time I tried this on Aurora a couple of weeks before I opened this bug, the problem existed in Aurora as well)

Comment 5

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

mastacheata, are you using any addons when you're switching into Firefox Metro?

Comment 6

[mastacheata]

Do you mean if I have any Addons installed and active or if there are any Addons specific to the Metro UI?
I have quite a few addons installed and active.

This is the list of installed addons copied from Help => Information for Troubleshooting
(this might not actually be the correct term as I just freely translated this from german)
> Adblock Plus	2.5.1	true	{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
> Barlesque	1.15	true	[e-mail]
> Firebug	1.12.6	true	[e-mail]
> FirePHP	0.7.4	true	[e-mail]
> Fox To Phone	1.2.4	true	[e-mail]
> Greasemonkey	1.15	true	{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}
> JS Deminifier	1.0.9	true	[e-mail]
> JSONView	0.7	true	[e-mail]
> LastPass	2.0.20	true	[e-mail]
> Link Location Bar	1.1.4	true	[e-mail]
> NoScript	2.6.8.16	true	{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}
> Official My JDownloader Add-On	1.316	true	jid1-OY8Xu5BsKZQa6A@jetpack
> ProxMate - Proxy on steroids!	2.3.3	true	jid1-QpHD8URtZWJC2A@jetpack
> Quick Locale Switcher	1.7.8.5	true	{25A1388B-6B18-46c3-BEBA-A81915D0DE8F}
> ReloadEvery	17.0.0	true	{888d99e7-e8b5-46a3-851e-1ec45da1e644}
> Restartless Restart	9	true	[e-mail]
> RESTClient	2.0.3	true	{ad0d925d-88f8-47f1-85ea-8463569e756e}
> SearchLoad - Einstellungen	0.7.4	true	[e-mail]
> SynoLoader	0.20	true	[e-mail]
> User Agent Switcher	0.7.3	true	{e968fc70-8f95-4ab9-9e79-304de2a71ee1}
> Xmarks	4.2.5	true	[e-mail]

Let me know if you need more info or if I should try anything else.

Comment 7

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

Yup, I just meant if you have any addons that are installed and active and not specific to the Metro UI.

This could possibly be another instance of Bug #976849. Once it lands on BETA, would you mind checking to see if that has fixed your problem?

Thanks again for posting this and replying back with all the needed information!

Comment 8

[mastacheata]

Sure, I'll keep an eye on it.
The problem descriptions looks pretty much exactly like what I had noticed.

Comment 9

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

I think Kamil's hypothesis has merit. 

I can't reproduce this on any of the machines available to me, so I have to drop this bug. 

mastsacheata, if you see this behavior after bug 876849 lands, NEEDINFO kamil or myself to get it back on our radar.

Thanks so much for reporting and your patience.

Comment 10

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Mass close of bugs in obsolete product https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1350354