2034939 - Update Add-ons Automatically no longer works

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2033055

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[oneofthedamons]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Opened about:addons
2. Clicked the setting cog
3. Clicked "Update Add-ons Automatically" when it is not ticked

Actual results:

"Update Add-ons Automatically" remains not ticked

Expected results:

"Update Add-ons Automatically" should be ticked.

This worked in version 150. Have verified in a test profile with no extensions enabled, and when enabling an arbitrary extension in that profile.

Comment 1

[oneofthedamons]

On further testing this might be a UI glitch rather than the update functionality itself. After manually selecting Check for Updates about:addons reports "Your add-ons have been updated." and an update which hadn't been updated appears to have been updated. However the option "Update Add-ons Automatically" remains not ticked.

Comment 2

[oneofthedamons]

Attachment: Screenshot 2026-04-25 at 11-06-28 Add-ons Manager.png

Comment 3

[oneofthedamons]

Attachment: Screenshot 2026-04-25 at 11.10.27 am.png

Comment 4

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Add-ons Manager' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 5

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I reproduced the issue only on the latest Beta (151.0b2/20260424090358) under Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.10. Release (150.0/20260415192539) and Nightly (152.0a1/20260426211850) are not affected.

As for the issue at hand, it appears to be a graphical glitch as I’ve installed an older version of an extension and presuming that the "Update Add-ons Automatically" is enabled by default, I’ve clicked the option (which should have disabled it) and then checked for updates. Indeed, the option was enabled initially, and me clicking it disabled it, as after I checked for updates, the update was downloaded but not carried out automatically. Then, I clicked the option again (it should have enabled it again) and checked for updates once more – the update was downloaded and carried out automatically.
This confirms it’s a graphical glitch and nothing broken with the underlying update mechanism.

Performing a mozregression revealed the regressor could be:

Bug 2026264 - Support clicking panel-list items on mouseup. r=dao

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D289865
Pushlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=8fb6a0f26884debff6940494613120e08c030696&tochange=aac53931d99ba7dffa92666e032d9cfa064c703d

Comment 6

[Alex Cornestean]

I just noticed that Bug 2033055 was logged first for the same issue, marking this report as duplicate.

Also, the issue was fixed in Nightly 152, that’s why I could not reproduce it there.