Remove FF what's new from Android

since I upgraded a version, I got a meatball blue dot for what's new -> firefox release page

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changed title from TB13.0a2 android: to TB13.0a2 android: remove FF what's new

mentioned in issue #41999 (closed)

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@thorin was this a notification or something from the old Firefox screen, does this happen in 13.0a4?

@dan @clairehurst regardlesss, we should remove the "What's new" entry in the kebab menu.

so when I posted the original, it was an upgrade from 102 to 115 - hence "version change" - since then I haven't seen it (dot releases) - I guess android doesn't have an ESR so it never triggers on these - yah! So yeah, just remove the what's new and that should also kill the blue dot for those upgrading 12.5 -> 13

assigned to @clairehurst

@clairehurst this is menu entry in the kebab menu, but only seems to be accessible when on the about:tor page/fragment thing (so not on ordinary web content). There also may be some notification mechanism that should also be disabled. This would be a change to the firefox-android repo (I doubt this feature would touch other components but who knows)

On 12.5.4, Whats New goes to torproject.org/releases. It seems that moz changed the underlying logic to directly get the URL (their URL) instead of using a function to get it (which we changed to return our URL). An easy fix would be to just replace their URL with ours (which is what we did before anyways, just in the function they used instead). With that in mind do we still want to remove the What's new completely?

We could even make it more direct and have it go directly to whats new in the current version, IE https://www.torproject.org/releases/tor-browser-12-5/ instead of https://www.torproject.org/releases/ if the user is using 12.5

@clairehurst does this trigger everytime the app updates? In which case we could update the link to direct the user to the relevant blog.torproject.org post (which includes a variant of the browser version in).

@donuts what do you think?

I think the blue dot triggers when the app updates and when you first install, but I'll check more tomorrow. The link is super easy to fix

Yes it triggers upon updating tor browser

mentioned in merge request firefox-android!19 (merged)

Should this be closed now that firefox-android!19 (merged) is merged?

yep :)

closed

marked this issue as related to tor-browser-build#40959 (closed)

marked this issue as related to tor-browser-build#40965 (closed)

changed title from TB13.0a2 android: remove FF what's new to Remove FF what's new from Android