Closed Bug 964883 Opened 11 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Allow for multiple simultaneous browser activities

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

All
Android
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: rnewman, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [qa?])

We need to be able to have Sync and FxA activities interleaved with Gecko. For example: * Launch Fennec * Open Settings * Tap Sync. * Tap a help link. * Read page. * Hit 'back' to get back to Sync setup. That's currently not possible. This hard-blocks Bug 962646 from being resolved via "just launch Fennec". It blocks us from providing access to FxA Sync setup from within Fennec itself.
Whiteboard: [qa?]
We're able to do half of this with some manifest tweaks: * Open Fennec * Settings > Firefox Account * Click a link * Hit back: goes back to the FxA wizard. * Hit back again: * Desired: back to Fennec. * Actual: drops to launcher. We cannot solve this for the classic Sync setup, due to Bug 774233 -- the above works by making each part of the app a separate task (which, incidentally, is what Chrome does). In order to complete the simplest version of the desired flow, we need to augment this by tracking a subset of stack events -- particularly when we've invoked BrowserApp -- and fake the back stack ourselves. In order to behave correctly in the broadest case, and be a generally good citizen on Android, we'd need to be able to support multiple Activity instances backed by the same abstract browser. That's a longer-term refactor, which would also enable some magic.
Depends on: 965020
No longer blocks: 964863
Assignee: rnewman → nobody
No longer blocks: 962646
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Summary: Provide a way to push BrowserApp onto the activity stack twice → Allow for multiple simultaneous browser activities
Depends on: 1077583
We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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