1557276 - Extensions.Uninstall action should clear the Uninstall runOnce pref so that an extension can be reinstalled

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Enterprise Policies, defect, P3)

Description

[gabiganam]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install my extension via "browser.policies.runOncePerModification.extensionsInstall".
2. Uninstall my extension via "browser.policies.runOncePerModification.extensionsUninstall".
3. Re-Install my extension via "browser.policies.runOncePerModification.extensionsInstall".
4. Re-Uninstall my extension via "browser.policies.runOncePerModification.extensionsUninstall".

Actual results:

Step #4 does not execute, the extension is not uninstalled (in the second attempt), and thus the extension remains.
The config state after the 4 steps is such, that my extension appears in both install and uninstall keys (but they are obviously not executed).

Expected results:

Step 4 should have re-uninstalled my extension.
See also a previous issue in the same scenario that was fixed (Bug 1495749).
That fix enabled step 3 to be executed properly, and now we are at step 4 - which this bug is about.

Comment 1

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Hi, I was able to reproduce this issue on Firefox Release 67.0.2, Firefox Beta 68.0b9 and Nightly 69.0a1.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Change the status for beta to have the same as nightly and release.
For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

I'm marking as WONTFIX as the new ExtensionSettings policy handles this much better.