1296093 - Mozilla-signed add-on suddenly flagged as "corrupt" by browser.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1267318

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[nagle]

Attachment: amostatusfail1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160315153207

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 45 open on Windows 7 64-bit when a notification popped up that the Ad Limiter add-on was corrupt and was being disabled. An attempt to reload the add-on from Mozilla's site resulted in "The add-on downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt".

(I'm the author of this add-on. It hasn't been touched in a year. It's fully reviewed. It passes validation, with some warnings about mouse movement callback overhead and a warning that it needs to be checked for multiprocessor compatibility. (It's 100% Jetpack API, so that shouldn't be a problem.)


Actual results:

Add-on would not install. See attached screenshot. 


Expected results:

Add-on should have loaded normally.

Comment 1

[nagle]

Tested on Firefox 47 on Linux-x86-64. No problem there.

Comment 2

[nagle]

Attachment: mozillaclaimscorrupted.png

Oops, loaded wrong screenshot previously.

Comment 3

[Loic]

I guess you're using 45 ESR.

According to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing#Timeline it should be not an issue:
"The first ESR version to include signing support will be the Firefox ESR 52 release."

I didn't test with ESR 45, but with FF48 there is no issue when installing your add-on.

Comment 4

[Loic]

There is bug 1253565 about the same issue. 

Kris, is a dupe?

Comment 5

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

No, the problem is the expired signature.