245744 - Roaming does not build into Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Collin Grady]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040606 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040606 Firefox/0.8.0+

When building Firefox, even with sroaming extension enabled, only sroaming.jar
is built, not sroaming.dll, and Firefox does not hook into sroaming.dll even if
it exists.

This results in no roaming in Firefox, even though the original bug seemed to
indicate it should work in Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build Firefox with sroaming.
2. Configure the Roaming extension.
3. Close and open Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Firefox starts normally, no roaming dialog.

Expected Results:  
Shown the roaming dialog as it updated files.

If it matters, the same happens with both Branch and Trunk.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Please hold off on this. When semi-single-profile lands, roaming may require
small or large changes in order to work with the new system.

Comment 2

[Robin Monks]

The information provided by the reporter is from an old build.  Please try to
reproduce this bug on a new nightly or on FF 0.9.

Thanks

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

session roaming will not work in firefox without some (perhaps significant)
work, because firefox no longer uses the code in profile/. We no longer store
profile information in the netscape registry, and the startup sequence is
different. If someone wants to fix up the extensions/sroaming code for ffox, I
will be happy to add the nsISessionRoaming hooks back into
toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp