BAT dropdown shows wallet details even before rewards is enabled

[srirambv]

Description

BAT dropdown shows wallet details even before rewards is enabled

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install beta using sudo apt install brave-browser-beta
2. Launch browser from terminal
3. Click on BAT button in URL bar, shows Wallet details even though rewards is not enabled. Console logs errors

[28798:28798:1004/145732.617047:ERROR:rapidjson_bat_helper.h(52)] Failed to parse:# go away 
User-agent: * 
Disallow: /  

Actual result:

https://youtu.be/p2zkM1Y5CCI

Expected result:

Should show the default dropdown to enable rewards

Reproduces how often:

Easy

Brave version (chrome://version info)

Brave	0.55.11 Chromium: 70.0.3538.35 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision	28dcb499844fa40c28d5f62e337876cb936f79f5-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#678}
OS	Linux

Reproducible on current release:

• Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds? Yes on Beta build
• Does it reproduce on browser-laptop? N/A

Website problems only:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Additional Information

I couldn't reproduce this on Windows. @kjozwiak @LaurenWags to check once on macOS

[btlechowski]

Not reproducible on Win7 x64

Brave	0.55.11 Chromium: 70.0.3538.35 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision	28dcb499844fa40c28d5f62e337876cb936f79f5-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#678}
OS	Windows 7

[NejcZdovc]

can't reproduce on macOS

[srirambv]

I cant reproduce this on a VM but consistently reproduce on laptop. Even after running rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/ and creating a new profile.

[LaurenWags]

I could not reproduce on macOS using the following build:

Brave	0.55.11 Chromium: 70.0.3538.35 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	28dcb499844fa40c28d5f62e337876cb936f79f5-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#678}
OS	Mac OS X

[kjozwiak]

Seems like this is only affecting Linux. @LaurenWags and @NejcZdovc couldn't reproduce on macOS and @btlechowski @srirambv couldn't reproduce the issue on Win.

[kjozwiak]

I couldn't reproduce using the following platforms:

• Mint 18.3 x64 [Desktop] - Couldn't reproduce
• Ubuntu 18.04 x64 [VM] - Couldn't reproduce

Used the following build for the above tests/checks:

Brave	0.56.6 Chromium: 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	9ab0cfab84ded083718d3a4ff830726efd38869f-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1002}
OS	Linux

@srirambv when you have some time, mind checking this again on your Ubuntu desktop and see if it's still an issue? If you can't reproduce it, lets close this off 👍

[srirambv]

I can reproduce this on Linux Desktop Ubuntu 18.04. (clean OS install and beta)

[NejcZdovc]

@srirambv which version you are using for testing?

[srirambv]

@NejcZdovc https://youtu.be/EwERdaXBlII