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[Remote NTP] Flicker on NTP is to see when Promo appears

Project Member Reported by meh...@chromium.org, Dec 7 2017

Issue description

Chrome Version: Canary Version 65.0.3287.0 
OS: macOS 10.12.6 (probably OS=All)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Use a small Laptop like MacBook Air 11" or a smaller window.
(2) Open the Local-NTP

What is the expected result? What happens instead?

Flicker-Issue 1: When the NTP opens, the tiles appear for a short time, but then the Promo appears and hide the Tiles.

Flicker- Issue 2 : If you click on the Promo link, then the Promo link disappears and the tiles appear.

Two screencasts showing the two issues are attached.

Not sure if it is worth to report this issue. If you think that we can live with this, please feel free to close this report.

Thanks.
 
Flicker-1.mov
1.8 MB Download
Flicker-2.mov
471 KB Download
Cc: -treib@chromium.org
Owner: treib@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
[mac triage] -> treib@ for further triage

Comment 2 by treib@chromium.org, Dec 8 2017

Cc: maxwalker@chromium.org
Labels: OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Windows
Summary: [Remote NTP] Flicker on NTP is to see when Promo appears (was: [Local-NTP] Flicker on NTP is to see when Promo appears)
This is the remote NTP - the local NTP doesn't have this kind of promos.

So, the underlying problem is that the promo takes up some space when it appears, which can cause a row of tiles to vanish. I see the following options, none of them very desirable:

1) Wait with showing the tiles until we know if there's a promo. Downside: The promo comes over the network and can take an arbitrary amount of time. We don't want to delay the NTP that much.

2) Always reserve space for a promo. Downside: On small-screen devices like this, the tiles would never show up.

3) Just drop promos on the remote NTP now. The local NTP won't have them, so maybe it's not such a big deal if they go away a bit earlier.

Max, WDYT? Any other ideas?
Interesting, thanks for reporting this! Given that the new local NTP will launch soon (target M65) and since this only occurs at the ~560px and ~700px height breakpoints I think that we shouldn't invest time in finding a temporary solution.

Comment 4 by treib@chromium.org, Dec 11 2017

Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3
Decreasing prio based on the comment above. Let's still keep it open until the local NTP is launched.

Comment 5 by mastiz@chromium.org, Dec 12 2017

Labels: zine-triaged

Comment 6 by treib@chromium.org, Jan 11 2018

Cc: kbleicher@chromium.org treib@chromium.org songsuk@chromium.org ajha@chromium.org mmanchala@chromium.org
 Issue 801023  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 7 by treib@chromium.org, Jan 11 2018

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Status: Available (was: Assigned)
Labels: RemoteNTP
Labels: NTPPromo

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