"No results were found" for some categories while being in "View Mobile Site"

[ValentinaPC]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/ desktop (device)
2. Click "View mobile site"
3. Go to "Block ads" category

Expected results: Add-ons from that category are listed.

Actual results: "No results were found" message is displayed.

Notes/Issues:

• if the user knows only the desktop site, may be confused, while loading it on device and being redirected to a mobile site but does not find add-ons in a category.

Verified on AMO-dev FF51(Win 7, Android 6.0.1) Video fro this issue:

[muffinresearch]

This will be resolved as the mobile site is expanded onto desktop. Currently the categorization is different for android and firefox although I wonder if that should continue to be the case as we update the mobile site to work with desktop too?

[ValentinaPC]

Reproducing also for FF 6.1(1) under iOS 9.3.5. Screenshot:

[ValentinaPC]

This is also happening in the new desktop pages because the category from desktop is "Privacy & Security" while on "View Mobile Site" we call "https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/security-privacy/". Screenshot:

[ValentinaPC]

This is in -prod.

[tofumatt]

Just for the record this is because those categories don't exist for desktop Firefox.

It might actually be best to 404 when the category isn't found.

[ValentinaPC]

Just for the record this is because those categories don't exist for desktop Firefox.

The interesting fact is that for the first category "Block Ads" we load the page https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/android/extensions/security-privacy/ and for desktop we have https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/privacy-security/ :)

[tofumatt]

Yes, that’s because we have different categories for desktop versus mobile :-/

[ValentinaPC]

Based on https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/10268 this can be closed.