881033 - If I add my addon to Firefox the Firefox->About menu gets broken

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Suki Venkat]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

Installed the Firefox Addon MuLTiFlow from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/multiflow/

P.S. I am one of the owners of the addon, so if there is something I can do to the addon to stop making this happen, I can do that.



Actual results:

Firefox --> About menu gets broken, i.e., shows XML named entity declaration error (appropriate DTD doesn't load, probably).


Expected results:

Firefox --> About menu should have been intact.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

As far as I can see this is reproducible on the previous versions of Firefox (19, 20), so it's not a regression.
You could ask for help on IRC Mozilla / addons channel.
If you solve your problem, please don't forget to get back and close this bug.

Comment 2

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

This is not the right place to track problems in add-ons. To get help and fix your issue, please either post in the forums (https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/) or the #extdev channel on Mozilla IRC (http://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC).

Comment 3

[Suki Venkat]

I reported this as a security lapse in Firefox that allowed addons to modify its crucial menus by accident.
In any case I managed to fix my addon without anyone's help but it is nice to know the consequences in Firefox for a broader audience.
To fix this bug I had to just remove some lines from my chrome.manifest related to branding:

locale	branding en-US	chrome/locale/branding/
locale	branding de-DE	chrome/locale/branding/
...

content branding branding/

I suppose these are only required for the standalone and not for the addon..