1497387 - Outdated, stale extensions metadata in addons.json

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Graham Perrin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:56.0; Waterfox) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.2.3

Steps to reproduce:

Probably in 2017 – certainly before a mid-2018 shift from GitHub to GitLab <https://github.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/issues/52> – I installed ClearURLs: 

<https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/clearurls/>

Subsequent updates included versions of the extension that no longer refer to GitHub for the home page, or for support. 


Actual results:


Months after updating to a version that did not refer to GitHub, there's outdated metadata such as this in addons.json: 

> … "homepageURL":"https://github.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls","supportURL":"https://github.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls" …

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The staleness is not peculiar to this extension; and it's not only the homepageURL and supportURL fields that are affected. 


Expected results:


addons.json should be updated. (Should it not?)

Comment 1

[u554753]

I'm unable to reproduce this with the following specs:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0

The addons.json seems to point to the correct urls. I think this might be something related to only Waterfox users or for users of version 56.2.3 and before?

Comment 2

[u554753]

Per Comment 1, can you try a fresh profile of Firefox release and see if you can reproduce the JSON files there?

Comment 3

[Graham Perrin]

OK, I created a new profile and added a couple of extensions: 

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/onlytrue/

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/simplicity-newtab/

I'll probably not tell whether the issue is reproducible unless the name changes (again) for either of those. 

AMO aside for a moment, can we identify any extension at (say) addons-dev.allizom.org where it's certain that the name _will_ change?

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

2019-03-06

This bug is part of a group of bugs which have had an open needinfo for at least 12 weeks.

The request for information has not been answered, and we can't move forward on the bug so we are closing it.

If the defect is still present, please reopen this bug with an updated report.

Comment 5

[Graham Perrin]

Thank you, bot, sorry that I never followed up on this …