213721 - Installing any XPI/extension crashes Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 213894

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030724
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030724

Installing any XPI seems to crash Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load URL (http://www.radialthinking.de/radialcontext/)
2. Click on link "RadialContext 1.0rc3 for Mozilla"

Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
No crash :).

Another example is the pnhtoolbar:
http://placenamehere.com/pnhtoolbar/

Just click on "Install v0.51 [Mozilla/Netscape 7 - All Platforms]" there.

And, I would include Talkback IDs, except that my talkback.exe is having trouble
connecting to Netscape at the moment.

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Ah, the Talkbacks just went through: TB22161034Y, TB22161019Z, TB22161005Y.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

installing any OLD xpi ...

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/radialcontext

1.0rc3 is dated 24th of march for Firebird, and 3rd of May for Mozilla, 
PNH-Toolbar is from april, that´s about the time for 1.4a

Try to install Spellchecker, there are different versions for Mozilla 1.3.x,
1.4, 1.5a/1.5b ...

Date for the 1.4-windows-version is (2003-04-23), 
for 1.5a and nightlies is (2003-07-18)

http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/installation.html

Comment 3

[James Rome]

It crashed on spellchecker (either install or download) for me also using the
2002072404 win xp build.

Comment 4

[James Rome]

It works correctly on the 2003072204 win xp build, so this is a regression in
the past day or two.

Comment 5

[Sven Grull]

No problems with 2003072304 under XP. Only with 2003072404 I can't install XPIs.

Comment 6

[noririty]

*** Bug 213739 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

adding "extension" to the summary, adding keyword regression.

Comment 8

[Ben Guthrie]

TB22178259H & TB22178223Y from my hard drive (
file:///I:/a/firebird/extensions/FBIcon-win.xpi )

TB22178158W - http://downloads.mozdev.org/extensionroom/jed/fbicon/FBIcon-win.xpi

TB22178158W - file:///I:/a/firebird/extensions/preferential.xpi

WIN98SE

Comment 9

[Ben Guthrie]

comment #8 is/was with firebird.  I assume it's "one" bug

Comment 10

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 213836 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 213838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Michael Lefevre]

bug 213836 was reported on Linux; OS->All

Comment 13

[Bill Mason]

Duping this to the newer bug 213894 since that bug has a patch attached and
approved.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213894 ***

Comment 14

[Michael Lefevre]

verified dupe.