291675 - Extension manager doesn't work with a new profile and an installer build

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

It appears that Extensions.rdf is no longer created in
appdir/defaults/profile/extensions and that this file is copied over to new
profiles. Copying an Extensions.rdf from a zip build into
appdir/defaults/profile/extensions appears to resolves this issue and zip builds
are not affected since this file exists with them. This is fallout from bug 286034.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050424
Firefox/1.0+

confirmed

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'll do this on Monday unless Ben or someone gets to it sooner. I would like to
ditch the pre-installed extensions.rdf altogether.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Generate extensions.rdf at runtime, rev. 1

Comment 4

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

patch checked in as part of 291831

Comment 5

[PikeUK]

It looks like this patch was only partially checked in, e.g.:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/app/profile/extensions/Extensions.rdf
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mail/app/profile/extensions/Extensions.rdf
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mail/app/profile/extensions/Makefile.in

Sorry for the spam if I've misunderstood something.

Comment 6

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

So is anything left from this patch or can the review request be cancelled?