1147327 - "iMacros for Firefox" add-on does not work with e10s

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Guilherme Santos]

Essentially broken. 

- Recording new macros won't work (Stop button does nothing);
- Clicking bookmarklets for macros will very rarely launch successfully, but won't run the macro until the end;
- Buttons on the sidebar will randomly work or click but do nothing.

Tested on Nightly 39 2015-03-24

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/

Comment 2

[Kus]

I'm on the latest build as of today (ID 20150523030206). iMacros mostly works. 

Crashes sometimes. Here is more information about the crash:  

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?product=Firefox&signature=mozalloc_abort%28char+const*+const%29+|+NS_DebugBreak+|+mozilla%3A%3Aipc%3A%3AMessageChannel%3A%3ADebugAbort%28char+const*%2C+int%2C+char+const*%2C+char+const*%2C+bool%29+|+mozilla%3A%3Aipc%3A%3AMessageChannel%3A%3ASend%28IPC%3A%3AMessage*%2C+IPC%3A%3AMessage*%29

Comment 3

[Kus]

A little prodding from Alex Mayorga led me to look for the status and I found http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7044&p=63011&hilit=e10s#p63011 

Long story short, they are aware of the issue. They hope to get this working in the next version, v9. They are currently on v8. 

http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7044&p=63011&hilit=e10s#p63011 

Tom writes: 

> Thanks for asking! Yes, the development team has been working hard over the past few months to prepare a version of iMacros for e10s. We will have one or two more maintenance releases of version 8 and then the v9 release will include e10s support.

He then links to the version history page at http://wiki.imacros.net/iMacros_for_Firefox#Version_History As of today, the latest I see are 2015-08-21 V8.9.4 BETA and 2015-03-25 V8.9.2.

Comment 4

[Jerod Lycett]

I've contacted the author hoping to hear how it's going.

Comment 5

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Version 	48.0a1
Build ID 	20160322030417
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
iMacros for Firefox 8.9.6
E10s Enabled or Disabled the AddOn fails to play a macro
1. Install iMacros
2. Click the icon in the toolbar
3. Expand Demo-Firefox and select Open6Tabs.iim
4. Click Play
Expect: the 6 tabs are opened in the same window
Actual: Nothing happens, no tabs open. I can also record new macros but they don't play.
Also failed to play in Mac 10.11 in Nightly regardless of E10s status.
Working as expected in the current release 45.0.1

Comment 6

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Are We E10s Ready... this also fails in Aurora
Version 	47.0a2
Build ID 	20160323004040
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0

Comment 7

[Kus]

Michelle, are you on iMacros v9?

http://download.imacros.net/archive/iMacros-Fx/imacros-9.0.0b2.xpi

Please try this version if you haven't already.

Comment 8

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Attachment: Nightly_iMacros9.PNG

Kus,
Thanks for the update. Please note our E10s AddOn testing is focusing on AddOns stored on the addons.mozilla.org server.
I adjusted the about:config pref for xpinstall and this did not work for Nightly or Aurora. Upon access not of the buttons were clickable, and reference attached for error message. Any additional info you can provide/suggest will be helpful.

Comment 9

[Kus]

Sorry about that. I got the same error as well. Please ignore my last comment. Any idea when e10s will hit beta?

Comment 10

[Michelle Funches - QA]

No idea, however, you may be able to get more info on IRC channel #addons

@Jorge, can you help answer this?

Comment 11

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

The more detailed schedule is here, and it's subject to change: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule

I believe the current expectation is Firefox 48, which will be in the Beta channel in June.

Comment 12

[:shell escalante]

version 9.0.3 available and marked compatible - requesting testing.

Comment 13

[Kanchan Kumari QA]

Attachment: iMacros Summary.docx

Hello Shell, Please find attached the test summary of iMacros addon for Windows 7. All other test information can be find on our Addon test workbook.

Comment 14

[:shell escalante]

passed testing - not a guarantee - but SoftVision checked and couldn't reproduce this issue. please re-open if needed.