247907 - non-english Firefox cannot use extensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246014

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect, P2)

Description

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

It's very serious bug for localized versions of Firefox.
We (localizers) have to remove english locales during localization because
othwerwise anyone who imported profile from english fx0.8 will launch Firefox
with english language which would looks very bad (you're installing polish
Firefox and after launch you have to manually change language to make it working?).
Second argument is that english locales are never used by someone who wants to
use polish Fx so it's good to make builds smaller.

The problem is with extensions. If in build there is no english locale, and
somebody installs english extension (which happens quite often) Firefox shows
red line with XUL error about lack of locales for extension.

It makes extension system totally non-usable for those who uses localized
versions of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Karsten Düsterloh]

See also the somewhat similar Seamonkey bug 216489.

Comment 2

[u60234]

This can be reproduced in the English version also. If the locale of the
extension is different from the application locale, the selectedLocale is not set.

I will attach two XPI's that shows this.

Comment 3

[u60234]

Attachment: Prov-enUS.xpi

This is a simple extension with the locale name en-US that just add a
non-functioning "Prov" menuitem in the Tools menu.

This works in the English Firefox build 2004-07-15-09 on Win XP. but not if I
change to Swedish locale on the same build.

Comment 4

[u60234]

Attachment: Prov-svSE.xpi

This is the same extension, only this time the name of the locale is sv-SE. 

Before you install this one, be sure to uninstall the previous extension and
remove the empty "{2571BB37-993B-4fbb-A0D3-E00B103E9B09}" folder and the
chrome.rdf file if you use the same profile.

In a en-US build this extension give an XML error at the bottom of the window.
The extension works just fine in the same build with Swedish locale.

The relevant section (I guess) of the profiles chrome.rdf file look like this
for the en-US build:

  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:package:prov"
		  
c:baseURL="jar:file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Hasse/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/07-16-en/extensions/%7B2571BB37-993B-4fbb-A0D3-E00B103E9B09%7D/chrome/prov.jar!/content/prov/"

		   c:locType="profile"
		   c:displayName="Prov"
		   c:name="prov"
		   c:extension="true" />


For the sv-SE build it look like this:

  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:package:prov"
		  
c:baseURL="jar:file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Hasse/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/07-16-sv/extensions/%7B2571BB37-993B-4fbb-A0D3-E00B103E9B09%7D/chrome/prov.jar!/content/prov/"

		   c:locType="profile"
		   c:displayName="Prov"
		   c:name="prov"
		   c:extension="true">
    <c:selectedLocale RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:locale:sv-SE:prov"/>
  </RDF:Description>

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This was fixed on the aviary branch with bug 246014, which hasn't quite landed
on the trunk yet.

Comment 6

[Jens Bannmann]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246014 ***

Comment 7

[Jens Bannmann]

(Sorry for the bugspam, somehow the previous attempt did not change the
duplicate-of bug number field)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246014 ***