1177379 - Signed sideloaded add-on is disabled in Addons Manager

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Vasilica Tamas, QA [:vtamas]]

Attachment: test_sideloaded-1-fx.xpi

Reproducible on: Firefox 40.0a2 and Firefox 41.0a1 across all platforms

STR
1.Launch Firefox with clean profile.
2.From about:config, set xpinstall.signatures.required = true.
3.Close Firefox.
4.Extract the files from the XPI into the <profile>/extensions/<ID> then start Firefox.
5.Finish the install process and verify the add-on status in about:addons.

ER
The add-on is enabled in Addons Manager.

AR
The sideloaded add-on is disabled in Addons Manager.

Additional notes:
- This issue is reproducible on Firefox 40.0a2 (2015-06-24) and Firefox 41.0a1 (2015-06-24) under Windows 7 64-bit and Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit
- I am attaching a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/vkzoYu8.jpg
- I am attaching the signed sideloaded add-on.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This add-on is signed by the dev root, did you enable xpinstall.signatures.dev-root? It works for me when I do that.

Comment 2

[Vasilica Tamas, QA [:vtamas]]

You're right, the add-on is successfully installed and enabled with xpinstall.signatures.dev-root set to true across all platforms.
Marking this bug as Invalid.