1408273 - WebExtensions needs restart to apply update

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1401956

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Patrick Albrecht]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2017-10-12 at 10.55.50 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171012220111

Steps to reproduce:

I have installed Grammarly v8.793.1186
Set auto update of extensions to off


Actual results:

I tried to install the update to v8.796.1221.


Expected results:

Firefox displays the message that I need to restart Firefox to apply the update even though Grammarly is a WebExtensions. (see screenshot)

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Patrick: I just tried installing it in 58 and it worked for me, but I wasn't trying to update the web extension. Guess I can try to reproduce with a fresh profile.

Comment 2

[Patrick Albrecht]

It was late last night so I didn't try to reproduce it with a fresh profile.
This morning I did and I'm able to reproduce it.
STR:
1) Start Firefox with a new profile
2) Turn off auto update of extensions
3) Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grammarly-1/versions/
4) Install v8.793.1186
5) Go to about:addons and search and download the update for Grammarly

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

ni on krupa - can you help find someone to investigate this?