1011037 - Add-on button disappears from navigation toolbar after reopen

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[Dale_Latimer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Hola.org downloader FF add-on plugin (http://cdn4.hola.org/static/hola_firefox_ext_1.3.276_www.xpi); this has been available through add-ons page for a while, altho offered version apparently not up-to-date

Button does not appear automagically in nav toolbar once installed; must be found in Customize screen, and moved to toolbar

Button icon does not initially appear in Additional Tools and Features either; it does when Restore Defaults is clicked, but then other things must be clicked such as Title Bar and possibly rechecking Menu Bar and Bookmarks before proper view is restored

(No offence, but writing to Hola.org has been totally ineffective. Can not convince them this is occurring)


Actual results:

Button only remains as long as current window is open; if closed and later reopened, button is missing, and can only be restored by again going to Customize screen, clicking Restore Defaults, etc. as described above


Expected results:

Button should appear in nav toolbar upon subsequent reopenings

Comment 1

[:Gijs (away/busy until Mar 10)]

Looking at the code, it seems they use https://github.com/Rob--W/toolbarwidget-jplib/, which AFAICT only seems to set the currentset attribute, which is no longer enough to correctly insert an item into the toolbar. In other words, it's an issue with the add-on. Moving to tech evangelism.

Jorge, do we have contacts with hola who we may be able to convince to take this issue slightly more seriously?

Comment 2

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

I'm copying the only contact I have for Hola. However, this is up to them to fix.