1427349 - sideloaded add-on updates are not visible in about:addons

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171130114045

Steps to reproduce:

On Fedora 27, with firefox-57.0.1-1.fc27 installed.
1. install mozilla-noscript-10.1.2-1.fc27 package
2. start firefox
3. update mozilla-noscript to 10.1.6-1.fc27 from updates-testing


Actual results:

about:addons information about NoScript still shows 10.1.2.


Expected results:

about:addons information about NoScript should show 10.1.6.

Comment 1

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

The mozilla-noscript package (which I maintain) drops the .xpi file in /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}.xpi , per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Alternative_distribution_options/Sideloading_add-ons#Installation_using_the_standard_extension_folders .

This bug seems to affect more than one packaged add-on. mozilla-https-everywhere is also affected.

A workaround is to:
1. stop firefox
2. remove the add-on package completely
3. start firefox so that it "notices" it's gone
4. stop firefox
5. install new version of add-on package
6. start firefox (extension is still not listed in about:addons at this point)
7. stop firefox
8. start firefox (extension appears on about:addons)

This was originally reported in Fedora as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508827 . It's reproducible on Fedora 26 as well.

Comment 2

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

Still reproducible with firefox-58.0-4.fc27 .

Comment 3

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

It appears to be fixed in 61.0.1 (firefox-61.0.1-3.fc28.x86_64) on Fedora 28. I haven't checked earlier versions.

Comment 4

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

Please re-open if this recurs.