1211073 - Control Section permission to install add-on is missing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[preethi.dhinesh]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2015-10-02 at 10.28.14 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151001142456

Steps to reproduce:

1.Open a Private Window
2.Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=hotness
3.Press the doorhanger



Actual results:

Permission to install addons is found missing .


Expected results:

A permission to install addons section should be present .
https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:Permissions_addon.png  , is expected as in the png

Comment 1

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop Test Engineering (back on Sep 5th)]

Please try again with a new profile because this is expected if the permissions were previously blocked. (as required in step 13.6 from testday's case https://goo.gl/yhC6f5)
[1] http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

So the Permissions area is dismissed if it's set to Block. This will be changed in future releases.

Comment 2

[preethi.dhinesh]

Hi Petruta ,

I created a new profile and executed the test cases . Yes ...It works Fine . 

Thanks,
PreethiDhinesh

Comment 3

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop Test Engineering (back on Sep 5th)]

Thanks for trying, PreethiDhinesh!

Marking as Works For Me.