Closed Bug 1511345 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Add-ons not working in Nightly

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(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect, P1)

65 Branch
defect

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()

VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla65
Tracking Status
firefox-esr60 --- unaffected
firefox63 --- unaffected
firefox64 --- unaffected
firefox65 blocking verified

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(Reporter: Pike, Assigned: aswan)

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(Keywords: dogfood, regression)

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None of my add-ons work in Nightly, on both my profiles. I see Error: Unknown webextension type webextension 9 XPIProvider.jsm:1635:17 in the console. Aswan, can this be fall-out from bug 857456? Gecko Profiler and uBlock Origin are examples I have locally.
Flags: needinfo?(aswan)
Probably caused by a typo at https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/061b97e02ede#l4.64 since I'm assuming that it should read "webextension" with one "b", and not two :-)
Blocks: 857456
Component: Untriaged → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Nightly updates disabled.
You could just fix the typo and see whether it makes a difference.
Clearing we're missing important test coverage here too.
Severity: normal → blocker
Flags: in-testsuite?
Priority: -- → P1
(In reply to Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM] from comment #4) > Clearing we're missing important test coverage here too. Maybe. In the past, we haven't tested these kinds of short-lived migrations much, though, so we don't really have any infrastructure for it.
I just got hit by this after updating and restarting Nightly. But! One of my affected extensions was Stylus, but a few minutes after restarting, Stylus was updated to a new version, and then it started working again. I also found that by uninstalling and reinstalling a given extension, it'd also work again. I feel like a quick workaround would be to force-update an extension (since uninstalling/reinstalling causes it to lose saved settings and such), but apparently the UI only lets me check if an update is available. Is there a way to do forced updates somehow as a temporary measure?
Has Regression Range: --- → yes
Has STR: --- → irrelevant
Keywords: dogfood
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Version: Trunk → 65 Branch
I confirm the bug and @nsdragon's remark that reinstalling/upgrading an extension makes it work again. Nightly 65.0a1 (2018-11-30) (64-bit, Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1LTS)
(In reply to Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.) from comment #9) > Downgrading to latest Firefox without this issue ( > https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2018/11/2018-11-29-21-44-05- > mozilla-central/ ) is also next workaround. That's not a great idea. We don't support reverse data migrations, and downgrading risks causing corruption.
Assignee: nobody → aswan
Flags: needinfo?(aswan)
Well now all my addons are working again without any further intervention (just another restart of the browser). I had only reinstalled maybe 1/5th of my addons; the rest of them weren't working at all until I restarted. Was there a nightly update in the past 45 minutes? Not sure where the right place to check the full build date is, but about:buildconfig for me points to a revision made 7 hours ago.
No, there haven't been any new Nightlies. And updates are currently frozen to the prior build rather than today's.
For the record, there were two issues here: 1. The typo spotted in comment 1 2. The original patch migrated extensions.json but not addonStartup.json Those files both get rewritten when there are changes to the set of active addons, so updating or uninstalling an existing addon, or installing a new one, would cause new correct versions of those files to be written and everything would work properly after a browser restart. With the patch from the try run above, both issues above should be fixed and both files should be properly migrated without any further user action.
(In reply to Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM] from comment #13) > For those who can reproduce, can you try of of the builds below to see if > things work better? Usual caveats apply about backing up your profile, etc. > > Linux64: > https://queue.taskcluster.net/v1/task/ZfUb7ydXTYOMfrJg-7hMnw/runs/0/ > artifacts/public/build/target.tar.bz2 This build fixed it for me, all my addons are back in my toolbar and active. Using Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1LTS.
Pushed by ryanvm@gmail.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/bb2815518fc7 Fix migration from bug 857456. r=kmag, r=zombie, a=RyanVM
Pushed by aswan@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b1446de2dd13 Follow-up: Don't blow up on empty addonStartup.json r=zombie a=RyanVM
New nightlies are currently being built and updates will be re-enabled once they're finished. Builds with Build ID of 20181130191449 or newer should contain the fix.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla65
Reddit Enhancemnt Suite, HTTPS Everywhere and Decentraleyes are still not working, maybe even more but uBlock seems to be working fine.
Forgot to mention I'm using build 20181130200939.
(In reply to Jules A from comment #21) > Reddit Enhancemnt Suite, HTTPS Everywhere and Decentraleyes are still not > working, maybe even more but uBlock seems to be working fine. If you're still having problems, please open a separate bug and include more detail about exactly what isn't working.
(In reply to Kris Maglione [:kmag] from comment #10) > (In reply to Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] - (please needinfo? me - so I will see > your comment/reply/question/etc.) from comment #9) > > Downgrading to latest Firefox without this issue ( > > https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2018/11/2018-11-29-21-44-05- > > mozilla-central/ ) is also next workaround. > > That's not a great idea. We don't support reverse data migrations, and > downgrading risks causing corruption. True, but it thankfully worked in my case without any negative effects and profile wasn't damaged, but like always I had backup close at hand. (In reply to Jules A from comment #21) > Reddit Enhancemnt Suite, HTTPS Everywhere and Decentraleyes are still not > working, maybe even more but uBlock seems to be working fine. In my case Decentraleyes working fine, as other extensions like: - CanvasBlocker 0.5.5 - Cookie AutoDelete 2.2.0 - CSS Exfil Protection 1.0.11 - Decentraleyes 2.0.8 - Disable HTML5 Autoplay 2018.10.3 - Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener) 2.1 - Don't track me Google 4.21 - Download Star 2.0.2 - Firefox Pioneer 1.0 - uBlock Origin 1.17.3.105 working fine, so I'm confirming that bug is fixed in latest Nightly and I'm marking this bug as VERIFIED. Thank you very much. \o/
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: Virtual
Oddly enough resetting extensions.databaseSchema pref fixed it for me.
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