1334695 - Prefs do not display

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1329027

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Dave Royal]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4.4; Tablet; rv:51.0) Gecko/51.0 Firefox/51.0
Build ID: 20170119123156

Steps to reproduce:

My sdk addon uses simple-prefs. These display OK on fennec 50 but do not display in 51.0
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jolla-askbot-unseen-posts/

(This may be a regression of bug 1243467 which affected it before, but the workround for that bug, which was in version 1.1.3 of the addon but was removed in the latest version 1.1.5, does not work. Version 1.1.3 does not display the prefs either.)

Comment 1

[Dave Royal]

I've replicated this on a second Android device which has no other (non-default) addons.

I wonder if this is related to bug 1306037 ?

I've just produced a new version of this addon - 1.1.6 (currently in review) - containing an embedded webextension that copies simple prefs to storage.local. This version shows the same problem - prefs not visible in about:addons. It also produces this message:

Called getURLForExtension on unmapped extension [e-mail]

That is mentioned by Luca Greco in comment 14 of that bug. And that bug relates to displaying prefs and was fixed in Fx 51 (but I don't know whether that applies to fennec)

Simple prefs display OK on Fx desktop for both v1.1.5 and v1.1.6

Comment 2

[Dave Royal]

I now realize that it's not just SDK/simple-prefs.
All my addons' prefs are missing.

See also bug 1329027 and issue with ublock: 
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1379

Disabling+enabling makes the word 'OPTIONS' reappear very briefly, but the options themselves do not appear. I saw effect that before in bug 1243467

Comment 3

[Dave Royal]

Several confirmations here
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/prefs-do-not-show-on-fx-51-for-android/13471