Firefox-ios: FXIOS-140 ⁃ Spinner showing indefinitely when trying to send and refresh tab from a FxA disconnected state

[SimonBasca]

Logged via: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575618

Preconditions:

• FxA is in a disconnected stated

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load a web page
2. Open Page Action menu
3. Tap send tab

Actual results:

• The spinning throttle is displayed indefinitely.

Expected results:

• Firefox iOS code should be fixed to show an error in this case instead of spinning indefinitely.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

[garvankeeley]

@SimonBasca any idea how to reproduce this?

[SimonBasca]

@garvankeeley I am unable to reproduce the crash following the STR on 21.0 (16860) but the spinning throttle is still spinning indefinitely after following the STR.

[nbhasin2]

Gonna take a look at it today and report back.

[SimonBasca]

@nbhasin2 not sure if you are aware of this but you can go to the disconnected state by going to Settings and tapping 3 times on the version number in Firefox. After the debugger options are revealed you can tap on "Debug: require password". Hope this helps.

[nbhasin2]

@SimonBasca Is this what happens without the crash?

[nbhasin2]

After more investigation, this happens when account is disconnected or not verified. There is no crash though. The spinner just spins indefinitely but no crash happens.

The ideal thing to do would be adding a message stating the user that the account is in a disconnected / not verified state.

[SimonBasca]

@SimonBasca Is this what happens without the crash?

@nbhasin2 That is also the behavior I am experiencing.

[mnoorenberghe]

FWIW I hit this again today so thanks for taking it!

[brampitoyo]

@nbhasin2 @SimonBasca @mnoorenberghe For this disconnected state, I wonder if we can show the same error message that we show when the user aren’t signed in to FxA? After all, the fix in both states is identical: the user must sign back in.