1068369 - "Add-on Update Checker" add-on does not work with e10s

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Valiar]

Tested with win 7 x64 | Nightly 35.0a1 (2014-09-16)

Comment 1

[Valiar]

Attachment: Error log

Comment 2

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

The developer has been notified through AMO.

Comment 3

[Chris]

This was fixed 2 months ago (2.8beta).  I'm not sure the breakage was actually e10s related.  The problem was the add-on was no longer able to read preferences.  I was using 'UAPref = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefService);' in a function and it stopped working there.  If I moved it outside of functions it started working again.  (This also broke a few other extensions I happen to be running that I fixed the same way.)  I finally settled on using 'let UAPref = Services.prefs;' in its place and it works in functions again.

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

(In reply to Chris from comment #3)
> This was fixed 2 months ago (2.8beta).

Thanks, Chris! Add-on Update Checker 2.8 is now on AMO.