Closed Bug 1669912 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Firefox 81 does not support extensions.json

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

defect

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: valia090695, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0

Steps to reproduce:

I use extensions.json file for extensions settings.

Actual results:

When I upgrade firefox to version 81 my extension dissappeared. When I remove extensions.json file my extensions appered in toolbar.

Expected results:

Firefox shuld support extensions.json file for manage extensions settings.

Hello I have tried to reproduce the issue with the description provided on Ubuntu 20 with firefox Nightly 83.0a1(2020-10-08).
Could you please answer the following questions in order to investigate it further?

  1. Does this issue happen with a new profile? Here is a link on how to create a new profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-reate-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
  2. Are you using add-ons? If so could you please list them?
  3. Does this issue occur in the latest nightly version of firefox? Here is a link from where you can download it: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
  4. Can you provide an example with the .json file?
Flags: needinfo?(valia090695)
  1. It is happend with new profile and old profile.
  2. I am using only one addon https://add0n.com/gmail-notifier.html
  3. Yes, this issue occur in the latest nightly version of firefox.
  4. My extensions.json
    {"schemaVersion":31,"addons":[{"id":"jid0-GjwrPchS3Ugt7xydvqVK4DQk8Ls@jetpack","defaultLocale":{"name":"Notifier for Gmail™"},"visible":true,"active":true,"path":"/usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/jid0-GjwrPchS3Ugt7xydvqVK4DQk8Ls@jetpack.xpi"}]}
Flags: needinfo?(valia090695)

Unfortunately I was still unable to reproduce the issue with fx 84.0a1(2020-11-09). I will add this issue to a component so one of our developers could look more into it. If it's not the right component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Component: Untriaged → File Handling
Version: Firefox 81 → unspecified
Component: File Handling → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit

This file is managed by Firefox itself -- there is no contract about how Firefox should handle external edits to it.
If you want to manage extensions externally, the supported way to do that is with policies: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enforcing-policies-firefox-enterprise

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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