251308 - don't fail to start firefox if write to extensions directory fails

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Clean build doesn't start on unix if run as a user that doesn't have write
permissions to the extensions directory in the app directory.

*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
...

over and over...

Comment 1

[Philip K. Warren]

Some additional information I am seeing. If you download the Firefox 0.9.1
release for Linux and do the following:

(As root)
# cd /path
# tar zxvf firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
# chown -R root:root firefox

(As regular user)
$ /path/firefox/firefox
$ echo $?
1

I think this is because Firefox does not have permission to create the
"extensions" directory in the application directory. Once it has been created by
running Firefox once as the root user, it is possible to start Firefox, however
there is no automated method to do this for package builders, etc.

Comment 2

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Attachment: this may fix it

better error handling in ensureExtensionsFiles

Comment 3

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Fix checked in branch and trunk (about 2 weeks ago)