Closed Bug 677646 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Install Add-on from file no longer works

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

8 Branch
defect
Not set
major

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()

VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla8
Tracking Status
firefox8 - ---

People

(Reporter: ilatypov, Assigned: Unfocused)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression)

Attachments

(1 file, 1 obsolete file)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110809 Firefox/8.0a1
Build ID: 20110809030751

Steps to reproduce:

Removed my Lightning comm-central add-on, attempted to install it from a fresh file.



Actual results:

After choosing the fresh file with the add-on manager file picker, the add-on screen did not update.

I observed an error in Error Console,

  Error: win is null
  Source File: chrome://messenger/content/specialTabs.js
  Line: 1065

This pointed to the last line in the following code from omni.jar!/chrome/messenger/content/messenger/specialTabs.js,

  xpInstallObserver: {
    observe: function (aSubject, aTopic, aData) {
      const Ci = Components.interfaces;
      let brandBundle = document.getElementById("bundle_brand");
      let messengerBundle = document.getElementById("bundle_messenger");

      let installInfo = aSubject.QueryInterface(Ci.amIWebInstallInfo);
      let win = installInfo.originatingWindow;
      let notificationBox = getNotificationBox(win.top);

I changed "win" with "window" and the Javascript error disappeared, but I still could not see any feedback from my attempt to install the add-on.



Expected results:

Either a pop-up window should provide reasons for not installing the add-on, or the add-on list should update and the new add-on should highlight.
(a) I figured that the bug occurs only when attempting to install an incompatible Lightning build from its top-level download directory,

 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/win32-xpi/

as opposed to the proper build in the latest-comm-central sub-directory,

  http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-central/win32-xpi/

(b) The bug does NOT occur with an August 2 nightly build of Shredder,

  http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2011-08-02-03-01-33-comm-central/

The bug occurs with all subsequent builds such as the one from the next night,

  http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2011-08-03-03-01-08-comm-central/
Summary: latest-comm-central-trunk fails to install add-ons → nightly builds of latest-comm-central-trunk after August 2 fail to inform on incompatible add-ons
Summary: nightly builds of latest-comm-central-trunk after August 2 fail to inform on incompatible add-ons → nightly builds of latest-comm-central after August 2 fail to inform on incompatible add-ons
Igor is Firefox nightly behaving the same way ?
I've just tested Firefox - installing an incompatible add-on from a file causes exactly the same failure.

Given the regression range, my best bet is bug 670023 being the one that caused this.

STR:

1) Find an add-on incompatible with current trunk and download it to disk
2) Go to Tools -> Add-on Manager and then select the menu with Install Add-on from File.
3) Nothing happens.

See comment 0 for the errors on the error console (similar code for FF).
Blocks: 670023
Severity: normal → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → Add-ons Manager
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: regression
OS: Windows XP → All
Product: Thunderbird → Toolkit
QA Contact: general → add-ons.manager
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: nightly builds of latest-comm-central after August 2 fail to inform on incompatible add-ons → Install Add-on from file no longer works
Version: Trunk → 8 Branch
Blair can you either figure this out or backout the strict mode patch before the merge on Tuesday
Assignee: nobody → bmcbride
Attached patch Patch v1 (obsolete) — Splinter Review
Simple fix. Testing it, however, is another story. Would like to punt that to a litmus test. (Fwiw, it was only the browser notification that was broken - it still installed fine.)
Attachment #553097 - Flags: review?(dtownsend)
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Comment on attachment 553097 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1

Could you test this by at least verifying that the observer notifications are getting sent?
Attachment #553097 - Flags: review?(dtownsend) → review+
Attached patch Patch v1.1Splinter Review
Indirectly testing via observer notifications.
Attachment #553097 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #553356 - Flags: review?(dtownsend)
Attachment #553356 - Flags: review?(dtownsend) → review+
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/67142b6a15ab
Flags: in-testsuite+
Flags: in-litmus?(hskupin)
Whiteboard: [inbound]
Flags: in-litmus?(hskupin) → in-litmus?(vlad.mozbugs)
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/67142b6a15ab
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Whiteboard: [inbound]
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla8
litmus test for 6.0 branch https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=25824
litmus test for aurora branch https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=25825
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: false
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Target Milestone: mozilla8 → ---
Flags: in-litmus?(vlad.mozbugs) → in-litmus+
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla8
(In reply to Maniac Vlad Florin (:vladmaniac) from comment #10)
> litmus test for 6.0 branch https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=25824
> litmus test for aurora branch
> https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=25825

Those tests are duplicates of a test I have added a while back. Not sure why those have been added again.

https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=15218

I have removed both new tests.
(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #3)
> 1) Find an add-on incompatible with current trunk and download it to disk
> 2) Go to Tools -> Add-on Manager and then select the menu with Install
> Add-on from File.
> 3) Nothing happens.

Those steps work fine for me now with incompatible extensions and Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0a2) Gecko/20110824 Firefox/8.0a2
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
This seems to have made Aurora. Do we actually need to track this.
(In reply to Asa Dotzler [:asa] from comment #13)
> This seems to have made Aurora. Do we actually need to track this.

I don't think so - it mainly affected other XULRunner applications, where Install from File may be the main method of installing addons (which isn't the case for Firefox).
(In reply to Blair McBride (:Unfocused) from comment #14)
> I don't think so - it mainly affected other XULRunner applications, where
> Install from File may be the main method of installing addons (which isn't
> the case for Firefox).

Even under this principle we have to ensure it's working in Toolkit. But since this fix landed for Firefox 8 and the strict mode has been enabled starting with Firefox 8, we should indeed be ok here.
---------------------------------[ Triage Comment ]---------------------------------

This looks like it already landed for Firefox 8 when it was on mozilla-central so we don't need to track.
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