Closed
Bug 1516799
Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
About:support is broken on android
Categories
(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)
Tracking
(firefox64 unaffected, firefox65 unaffected, firefox66+ verified)
VERIFIED
FIXED
Firefox 66
Tracking | Status | |
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firefox64 | --- | unaffected |
firefox65 | --- | unaffected |
firefox66 | + | verified |
People
(Reporter: csheany, Assigned: Gijs)
References
Details
(Keywords: regression)
Attachments
(2 files)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 7.1.1; Tablet; rv:66.0) Gecko/66.0 Firefox/66.0
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open about:support
Actual results:
Elements are missing
Expected results:
To be determined
Updated•6 years ago
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Blocks: 1507595
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox66:
--- → affected
tracking-firefox66:
--- → ?
Ever confirmed: true
Flags: needinfo?(jaws)
Keywords: regression
OS: Unspecified → Android
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Comment 2•6 years ago
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I thought it could be an issue with missing fallback to English, but it happens also in Italian, where I've already done the migration (and it works correctly on Desktop).
I've looked again at
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c68ba2c62949
And I can't spot any glaring issue.
But in my build, about:about is also not localized (it's in English, no strings missing), so there might be a larger problem with FTL and mobile builds.
Comment 3•6 years ago
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I'm completely lost, since I don't know much about the build process or l10n registry.
en-US files:
resource:///localization/en-US/toolkit/en-US/toolkit has 4 folders, the /about folder has 10 files (including aboutSupport.ftl). So we should at least fall back, unless we're looking in a different path.
resource:///localization/it/toolkit/ has only one file (aboutAbout.ftl).
The structure of resource:///localization/ is also completely different from what I see on desktop.
Comment 4•6 years ago
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Can't figure out how to do a local build in a descent amount of time, but yes, the apk contents are puzzling.
Comment 5•6 years ago
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I've double checked Beta and Release, and I see the same unlocalized about:about and resource:/// structure, so it's not a regression (or, at least, not recent).
Comment 6•6 years ago
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Chenxia, do you know about packaging for Android builds?
Flags: needinfo?(jaws) → needinfo?(liuche)
Assignee | ||
Comment 7•6 years ago
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So to be clear, what's broken here? My en-US beta build has working strings on about:about, so it seems to me fluent is not completely broken. Is non-en-US broken? Something else?
Flags: needinfo?(francesco.lodolo)
Comment 8•6 years ago
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When I visit "resource:///localization/en-US/toolkit/en-US/toolkit" on my Nightly Android build, I get a "file not found" error.
However, "resource:///localization/en-US/toolkit/" shows the four folders that comment #3 is referring to. Inside of the "about" folder there is an "aboutSupport.ftl" file.
Comment 9•6 years ago
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(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #7)
> So to be clear, what's broken here? My en-US beta build has working strings
> on about:about, so it seems to me fluent is not completely broken. Is
> non-en-US broken? Something else?
* Build: we're not packaging all localized files. In the locale path there's only one file (aboutAbout.ftl), and it's in the wrong path as far as I can tell (it shouldn't be in the root). No trace of aboutSupport.ftl
* about:support it's not even loading en-US strings as fallback (like it happens for about:about). Not sure if there's something in the code causing that.
(In reply to (away Dec 24-26, Dec 31-Jan 1) Jared Wein [:jaws] (Regression Engineering Owner for 65) (please needinfo? me) from comment #8)
> When I visit "resource:///localization/en-US/toolkit/en-US/toolkit" on my
> Nightly Android build, I get a "file not found" error.
From my tests yesterday, you need the trailing slash.
Flags: needinfo?(francesco.lodolo)
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Comment 12•6 years ago
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(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #9)
> * Build: we're not packaging all localized files. In the locale path there's
> only one file (aboutAbout.ftl), and it's in the wrong path as far as I can
> tell (it shouldn't be in the root). No trace of aboutSupport.ftl
Correction: in Today's build from Play Store, aboutSupport.ftl is packaged together with aboutAbout.ftl
Comment 13•6 years ago
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Trying also to NI zibi, in case he has ideas on what's going on.
Flags: needinfo?(gandalf)
Comment 14•6 years ago
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The reason this doesn't work is because we reference brand.ftl which doesn't exist in Android:
```
+ <link rel="localization" href="branding/brand.ftl"/>
+ <link rel="localization" href="toolkit/about/aboutSupport.ftl"/>
```
aboutSupport.ftl gets properly loaded, but `branding/brand.ftl` only exists on desktop and gets packaged into browser's `omni.ja` (and in result FileSource).
Since Fennec only has a single omni.ja, I'm not sure how to approach it - the easiest way would be to ignore the fact that the GRE omni.ja is supposed to be app-independent, and just package https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/branding/*/locales/en-US/brand.dtd into it just like we do for browser's brand.ftl:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/branding/official/locales/jar.mn
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/branding/official/locales/jar.mn
Flags: needinfo?(gandalf) → needinfo?(l10n)
Assignee | ||
Comment 15•6 years ago
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(In reply to Zibi Braniecki [:gandalf][:zibi] from comment #14)
> The reason this doesn't work is because we reference brand.ftl which doesn't
> exist in Android:
>
> ```
> + <link rel="localization" href="branding/brand.ftl"/>
> + <link rel="localization" href="toolkit/about/aboutSupport.ftl"/>
> ```
>
> aboutSupport.ftl gets properly loaded, but `branding/brand.ftl` only exists
> on desktop and gets packaged into browser's `omni.ja` (and in result
> FileSource).
>
> Since Fennec only has a single omni.ja, I'm not sure how to approach it -
> the easiest way would be to ignore the fact that the GRE omni.ja is supposed
> to be app-independent, and just package
> https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/branding/*/
> locales/en-US/brand.dtd into it just like we do for browser's brand.ftl:
> https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/branding/official/
> locales/jar.mn
> https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/branding/
> official/locales/jar.mn
FWIW, this doesn't seem to be sufficient. We also need to add a FileSource that actually maps to this part of omni.ja, which feels pretty yucky. From what I saw of L10nRegistry internals when looking at this, it seems there may be runtime overheads to this because we attempt to find any ftl file in any registered file source, which will involve lots of poking at bits of omni.ja that have nothing except the branding files. Presumably there is a better solution to this, but none was pointed out here...
Perhaps the alternative would be to find a way to package the branding file in the expected part of the existing "toolkit" FileSource.
Assignee | ||
Comment 16•6 years ago
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Does this definitely affect beta and release?
Comment 18•6 years ago
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(In reply to Liz Henry (:lizzard) (PTO Dec 28) from comment #17)
> Does this definitely affect beta and release?
No, it only affects Nightly and mobile (page works fine on desktop).
Assignee | ||
Updated•6 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → gijskruitbosch+bugs
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Updated•6 years ago
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Attachment #9033956 -
Attachment description: Bug 1516799 - strawman patch to add fluent branding on android, r?zbraniecki!,Pike! → Bug 1516799 - add fluent branding on fennec, r?zbraniecki!,Pike!
Assignee | ||
Updated•6 years ago
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Summary: About:support is broken → About:support is broken on android
Comment 20•6 years ago
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Pushed by gijskruitbosch@gmail.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6c2796200711
add fluent branding on fennec, r=zbraniecki
Comment 21•6 years ago
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Gijs, thanks for taking a stab at this, the landing looks OK. Let's see what the landing on central brings on the next nightly.
Clearing the pending needinfos.
Flags: needinfo?(liuche)
Flags: needinfo?(l10n)
Comment 22•6 years ago
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bugherder |
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 66
Comment 23•6 years ago
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Latest Nightly (20190104093221) from Play Store has text, but it's in English. Filed bug 1517919 for that part.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Comment 24•6 years ago
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Verified as fixed on the latest version of Nightly 66.0a1 (2019-01-06) with Nexus 6P (Android 8.1.0). Due to that and the comment 23, I'll remove the qe-verify flag, thanks.
Flags: qe-verify+
Updated•4 years ago
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Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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