1517267 - Some add-ons showing twice

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[GT]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere add-ons on one computer, which is sync'd. When starting Firefox on another machine, I noticed two icons for each of these add-ons shown in the bar.


Actual results:

I brought up the add-on manager and, sure enough, these add-ons were listed twice. I removed one instance of each. The result: both add-ons and their preferences were deleted.


Expected results:

Add-ons should not show up twice in the first place. If they do, removing one instance should not remove all.
Also, please prompt for approval before deleting preferences. For anything.

Comment 1

[Daniel_A[:daschilean] [Please contact - [e-mail]]]

I verified this issue on Macbook 10.14 with the latest Firefox release version 64.0.2 and I cannot reproduce it.
Can you please test this in safe mode? Here is a link that can help you: https://goo.gl/AR5o9d.
I think it will be a good idea to retest this on the latest Firefox Nightly. Here is a link form where you can download it: https://nightly.mozilla.org.
If you still have the issue please create a new profile, you have the steps here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 2

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Hi GT,

I installed the addons you mentioned and synced 2 machines (Windows 10 and Mac OS 10.13) on the latest Firefox Release 65.0.
Couldn't reproduce the issue as the addons where synced correctly.
Can you please check it out once more on the latest FF version? It would be good to know on which operating systems you used sync (I suppose Mac OS was one of them).

Comment 3

[GT]

Thanks, guys. I'm on the latest versions of everything (MacOS 10.14.2, and now Firefox 65.0). If it helps, the issue occurred after I have not used Firefox for a couple of years (switched to another browser, then decided to go back to Firefox thanks to the container architecture, and reinstalled the browser on my iMac and Macbook Pro).
I unfortunately do not have any test machines, and I never install beta software, so I don't think I'll be able to help much with testing or reproducing the issue (it had not occurred since I reported it). If you are confident it is not an issue, please feel free to close the bug, and maybe leave the record of it, in case others report a similar issue.
So far, I'm happy with the new Firefox.

Comment 4

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Hey GT,

Glad to hear that! I will close this issue as Resolved - WorksForMe, please feel free to re-open it in case you can reproduce it once again on the latest Firefox version.