1016386 - I restarted firefox with add-on disabled, when I was in this mode, FF updated itself to the latest version. when I restarted again, all my add-ons were gone. also all my open tabs.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[krs]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/537.75.14

Steps to reproduce:

I had autoupdate disabled and I had version 28 on Mac OS. I restarted my firefox in the "all add-ons disabled" mode. I was using firefox in this mode when it automatically updated itself to version 29. When I finished my work, I restarted my firefox to start it in the normal mode.


Actual results:

When I opened it up, it was upgraded to v28. All my add-ons were deleted.  
Also all my open tabs were gone but I really don't care about that. I care about why it updated itself and why it deleted all my add-ons. 


Expected results:

First, it shouldn't have updated to v29 because I explicitly disabled that option. Second, Since I was in the "all add-ons disabled" mode, the new version didn't recognized my add-ons and removed them all. This should've never happened regardless of autoupdate being disabled or not. I guess this is a bug that is there and can again happen to some people in the release of every new version.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

krs, are you still seeing this problem?

Comment 2

[krs]

I just checked again and I didn't see it anymore. 
I think it is fixed in new versions of FF. (now there are 2 buttons to choose either "safe mode" or "refresh Firefox" which didn't exist at time I filed this bug more than 17 months ago!
Long ago I switched from FF to Palemoon. I totally recommend it also for you:) I Only used FF now to verify the bug. 

Thank you anyway,
krs

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the test