977863 - Improve the way we detect a Firefox installation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Web Apps, defect, P3)

Description

[Pierre Rudloff]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 Iceweasel/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140208021132

Steps to reproduce:

1. Browse here https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/archi-stras?src=search
2. Click on Launch


Actual results:

An error popup says that I need Firefox 16+.


Expected results:

It should work, as I am using Firefox 27.

Comment 1

[Pierre Rudloff]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 2

[moses]

Pierre, 

Works fine for me. Reason is probably because you are using IceWeasel as mentioned in your user agent, "User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 Iceweasel/27.0 (Beta/Release)"

Use official Firefox from www.getfirefox.com as using a third party browser based off Mozilla source code can give you problems.

If you feel the need to consider digging further on this issue, let us know.

Comment 3

[Pierre Rudloff]

I can reproduce this issue with the official Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0).

Comment 4

[moses]

Attachment: No issue

This is odd...I can't reproduce this on Win8.1 Pro x64 on Fx27.
Must be a Linux only issue...

Comment 5

[Ioana (away)]

I reproduced this locally on Ubuntu 13.04 x86 using Firefox 27, 29.0b2 and 31.0a1.

The more exact steps for me would be:
1. Install the app from here: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/archi-stras?src=search.
2. Restart Firefox.
3. Go back to https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/archi-stras?src=search.
4. Click "Launch".

The bug doesn't reproduce for me when trying to launch the app right after the install (without any restarts).

Comment 6

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Can you launch apps from the Unity dashboard?

Comment 7

[Pierre Rudloff]

I am using Xfce but I get the same error message using the Xfce application menu.

Comment 8

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Pierre Rudloff from comment #7)
> I am using Xfce but I get the same error message using the Xfce application
> menu.

There are some files I'd like to see, if that's ok with you.
The files are:
 - In your Firefox profile, the contents of the webapps directory.
 - In your home directory, the contents of the ".archi..." directory.
 - In the ~/.local/share/applications directory, the contents of the desktop file associated with your app (it should be called "owa-archi...")

(In reply to Ioana Budnar, QA [:ioana] from comment #5)
> The bug doesn't reproduce for me when trying to launch the app right after
> the install (without any restarts).

This is weird.

Comment 9

[Pierre Rudloff]

~/.mozilla/firefox/mk5spx1n.default-1395928954427/webapps:
./{eda359f0-f9f0-4c60-aa3d-ffb64eca21ac}
./{eda359f0-f9f0-4c60-aa3d-ffb64eca21ac}/manifest.webapp
./webapps.json

~/.local/share/applications/owa-archi-stras-820dae5a5c42c2c03a62f33bf1d99a3e.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Archi-Stras
Comment=Architecture and pictures in Strasbourg
Exec="/home/pierre/.archi-stras-820dae5a5c42c2c03a62f33bf1d99a3e/webapprt-stub"
Icon=/home/pierre/.archi-stras-820dae5a5c42c2c03a62f33bf1d99a3e/icon.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Video;AudioVideo;Photography;Maps;
Actions=Uninstall;
[Desktop Action Uninstall]
Name=Uninstall App
Exec=/home/pierre/.archi-stras-820dae5a5c42c2c03a62f33bf1d99a3e/webapprt-stub -remove

~/.archi-stras-820dae5a5c42c2c03a62f33bf1d99a3e:
./webapp.json
./icon.png
./profiles.ini
./Crash Reports
./Crash Reports/InstallTime20131031040200
./umqts308.default
./umqts308.default/marionette.log
./umqts308.default/pluginreg.dat
./umqts308.default/minidumps
./umqts308.default/prefs.js
./umqts308.default/compatibility.ini
./umqts308.default/brand.dtd
./umqts308.default/.parentlock
./umqts308.default/saved-telemetry-pings
./umqts308.default/saved-telemetry-pings/09721cd6-909c-4ac1-8a56-4b3305553d72
./umqts308.default/places.sqlite
./umqts308.default/webappsstore.sqlite
./umqts308.default/cert8.db
./umqts308.default/times.json
./umqts308.default/storage
./umqts308.default/storage/persistent
./umqts308.default/storage/persistent/chrome
./umqts308.default/storage/persistent/chrome/.metadata
./umqts308.default/storage/persistent/chrome/idb
./umqts308.default/storage/persistent/chrome/idb/2588645841ssegtnti
./umqts308.default/storage/persistent/chrome/idb/2588645841ssegtnti.sqlite
./umqts308.default/secmod.db
./umqts308.default/localstore.rdf
./umqts308.default/brand.properties
./umqts308.default/seer.sqlite
./umqts308.default/cookies.sqlite
./umqts308.default/httpDataUsage.dat
./umqts308.default/key3.db
./umqts308.default/Telemetry.ShutdownTime.txt
./umqts308.default/permissions.sqlite
./umqts308.default/formhistory.sqlite
./webapp.ini
./webapprt-stub

Comment 10

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Could you follow the following steps?
 > open the webapp.ini file (that is in the "~/.archi-stras-820dae5a5c42c2c03a62f33bf1d99a3e" directory) and write down the value of the InstallDir property
 > open the "application.ini" file that is contained in the InstallDir directory

Comment 11

[Pierre Rudloff]

Oh, I think you found the problem : sometimes ago I renamed the folder where Firefox is installed and InstallDir was still pointing to the old folder. I edited it to point to the new folder and now it works correctly.

Comment 12

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Let's leave this bug opened to try and find a better way to detect the Firefox installation directory.

Comment 13

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Per bug 1238079, we're going to disable the desktop web runtime and remove it
from the codebase, so we won't fix these bugs in the integration between Firefox and the runtime.