Closed Bug 1387611 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Delay formautofill system add-on updates until the next restart

Categories

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
major

Tracking

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RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla57
Tracking Status
firefox56 --- unaffected
firefox57 --- fixed

People

(Reporter: MattN, Assigned: MattN)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [form autofill:M3])

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(1 file)

Since it's going to a be a lot of work and risk to tear down/replace all of the XPCOM components, JSMs, stylesheets, injected preferences, etc. at runtime and that doesn't seem worth it to support updates during runtime, we can instead delay any add-on updates until the next restart. This will still be much faster than only updating on Fx releases.

We just need to add an upgrade listener to the add-on and do nothing when it's called which means the upgrade won't be installed at that time.

http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/f0e4ae5f8c40ba742214e89aba3f554da0b89a33/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/xpcshell/data/test_delay_update_ignore/bootstrap.js#12,15-17,19-22
Flags: qe-verify+
I didn't manually test this because it will take a lot of work and this is already covered by add-on manager unit tests (linked from comment 0). QE can verify when we start delivering as a system add-on.
Comment on attachment 8894007 [details]
Bug 1387611 - Delay formautofill system add-on updates until the next restart.

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/165086/#review170630

Thanks, Matt.
Attachment #8894007 - Flags: review?(lchang) → review+
Pushed by mozilla@noorenberghe.ca:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/347ea0d06092
Delay formautofill system add-on updates until the next restart. r=lchang
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/347ea0d06092
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla57
Depends on: 1388285
Whiteboard: [form autofill:MVP] → [form autofill:M3]
Matthew N, can you give us some guidelines on how can we test this fix? Thanks
Flags: needinfo?(MattN+bmo)
I don't think you can test this without an update to the system add-on being available via balrog. If you have an update staged this is trivial to test, just make sure the add-on doesn't update while Fx is running even when the update is downloaded.
Flags: needinfo?(MattN+bmo)
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