423238 - Addon Window buttons fail: AddonsViewBuilder is undefined

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 419929

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[John J. Barton]

In 3b4 the addon window is not populated and the buttons don't work. The error is

debugger.onError: AddonsViewBuilder is undefined
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(0)chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.js:238-458@431
(0)chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul/event/FPxbVhS%2BKFW1AXRhpIEdJQ%3D%3D:1-2@1
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Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

What are the steps to reproduce this?

Comment 2

[John J. Barton]

Sorry, didn't finish my job, did I. 

Firefox->Tools->Addons
I'll attach an image
Then on the Add-ons window, click on Extensions button on top
Another image for that.

I have two extensions loaded for sure so the view is incorrect.

Comment 3

[John J. Barton]

Attachment: Window that popups up from Firefox->Tools->AddOns

Extensions should be listed; they aren't

Comment 4

[John J. Barton]

Attachment: Clicking Extensions button on top of Addon window

Should show two extensions.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Is this totally reproducable?
Is it exactly 3b4, not a nightly or a non-official build?
What extensions do you have?
Does it happen in safe mode or a new profile?
Is anything displayed in the error console with chrome errors enabled?

Comment 6

[John J. Barton]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Is this totally reproducable?
 Yes every time
> Is it exactly 3b4, not a nightly or a non-official build?
 Standard issue 3b4, and the same thing has happened for previous betas.
> What extensions do you have?
 Firebug and Chrombug
> Does it happen in safe mode or a new profile?
 I would not expect it to happen, since it can't show extensions when there are none.
> Is anything displayed in the error console with chrome errors enabled?
> 
As I posted.

This view has never worked for me so I thought maybe it just was not working yet. If this behavior is a surprise to you, then there must be something about chromebug that is an issue.

Comment 7

[John J. Barton]

When I start FF3b4 after FF2 and immediately Firefox->Tools->Addons it works. In this case the compreg.dat is re-built.

If I restart FF3b4, then Firefox->Tools->Addons, I get these errors:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]"  nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 71"  data: no]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIPrefBranch2.addObserver]"  nsresult: "0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.js :: Startup :: line 988"  data: no]

See also 408412 and 421392

Comment 8

[John J. Barton]

Now this is getting weird. I crashed FF3b4. On the next run and so far since then the Addon window works. I would just say "Oh, bad profile", but remember Addon window has never worked for me. (Looks cool now that I can see it ;-).

One  error in Error Console:

Error: Warning: unrecognized command line flag -jsconsole

Source File: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox%203%20Beta%204/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js
Line: 695
and the console did not come up on it own. Chromebug does some funky stuff for the jsconsole. Let me run without it for a bit.

Comment 9

[John J. Barton]

Ok I hit this error and avoided it several times now. Every time I hit the error I had the import exception.  Turns out there is a another report on the import problem, 419929, which is identical to my case.