Should FxA remove support for old browser integrations?

Ryan Kelly rfkelly at mozilla.com
Wed Oct 25 03:34:08 UTC 2017


Thanks for the thorough analysis Shane!

On 24 October 2017 at 22:54, Shane Tomlinson <stomlinson at mozilla.com> wrote:

>
> Now, there is some nuance to how to approach this. The two options I see:
>
> * Any visitor with Firefox < 45 will be asked to upgrade.
> * Any visitor with `context=fx_desktop_v1` will be asked to upgrade.
>
> These are *not* equivalent statements. The first will ask more users to
> upgrade because in the second, users on Fx >= 40 but <= 46 who open FxA
> with `context=fx_desktop_v2` will not be asked to upgrade.
>

To me, deprecating `context` values seems more directly related to what we
want to achieve, and means we won't lock out any users who might otherwise
have logged in successfully.  But I don't feel super strongly either way.

  Ryan
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