979432 - Remove all Sync notification bars which don't require user action to resolve.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180587

(Firefox :: Sync, defect, P1)

Description

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Without user action, this is just worrying user without benefit. Discussed in today's sync stand up, not an FF29 blocker, but I sure would like to see us just remove it.

Comment 1

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Is the goal of this bug to remove the sync notification bar? To remove the notification bar when sync failed due to network outage?

There is a whole lot of other possible failures, like login failures, being over quota, the client being too old, being forced to back off, etc.

Comment 2

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

The proximate goal is to stop showing a notify bar on network outages.

If there are other notification bars that alert the user to a situation they can do nothing to resolve (maybe back off fits into this camp?) killing those is gravy, but not strictly the scope of this bug.

This is not a request to remove useful, actionable errors around, e.g., bad credentials.

Comment 3

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Note that Sync is more aggressive about reporting errors when the user selects "Sync Now" - so many errors that wouldn't cause a notification bar during regularly scheduled syncs *will* cause the notification bar when the user explicitly requests a sync.

For now, I'm going to assume that this behaviour is acceptable - that this bug is really only concerned with errors bars that pop-up without the user explicitly requesting a sync.  If you disagree with this, please speak up!

Comment 6

[Chris Karlof [:ckarlof]]

Markh, can we close this one now? If so, please do.

Comment 7

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

We are doing all this in bug 1180587