113439 - Installer fails to complete

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[j.bowen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112009

The installer never returns to the user after installing an XPI package.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Save to disk spellchk.xpi from
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2/windows/win32/xpi
2.Open File spellchk.xpi and select "Install"
3.Installer seems to run but then stops with Mozilla apparently waiting for page
to load (icon is phasing)

Actual Results:  Package seems to have been installed on the disk but the
spellcheck option is still greyed out in Mail Composition prefs and Mozilla
continues to wait for some page download to complete

Expected Results:  Spell checker installed.

Also tried on various Win95/98 machines.

Comment 1

[eberry]

Sorry, Mozilla doesn't fully support usage of the Netscape spell checker. 
You'll need to use Netscape for that. See:
  http://www.mozilla.org.uk/docs/spell-checker-faq.html
Bug also see:
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56301

Comment 2

[Jeremy]

Irrespective of the Spellchecker support, is the XPI installer supposed to
return to the user and indicate success/failure/completion ?

If so, then this is broken with the spellchk.xpi install package. The installer
is not returning anything to the user at the completion of the installation
process and Mozilla indicates that it is trying to load a page.

If the spellchk.xpi package is broken, then Mozilla installer is not handling it
robustly. 
If the spellchk.xpi package is NOT broken, then the installer must be failing
somewhere internally and has a bug.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

No, most xpinstall packages are designed to be silent because multiple packages
can be installed at once. Status is saved to an install log and when launched
from a web page status can be returned to that page for appropriate display.

Launching from a raw link is somewhat discouraged because in almost all cases
there's some pre-download logic you want the web site to run to make sure the
correct stuff is being installed. For example, don't give unix binaries to a Mac
person, don't serve an incompatible 0.9.4 locale to someone with 0.9.6, don't
give them a spellchecker version that isn't going to work.

There's an RFE to redesign the download dialog which will then contain some
results as well.

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

verified