245553 - uninstalling QuickNote breaks Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040411 Firefox/0.8.0+ (best browser EVAR1!!)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040603 Firefox/0.8.0+

After uninstalling QuickNote (via new EM's Uninstall feature), on first restart
of Firefox, the Bookmark toolbar no longer work and Firefox is almost
un-responsive (ie. menus aren't clickable etc).

Looking into profile directory, the QuickNote files are deleted, but references
to it in chrome.rdf and overlayinfo\..\overlays.rdf are left untouched.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install QuickNote from given URL.
2. Restart
3. Open EM, uninstall QuickNote
4. Restart
Actual Results:  
Bookmark Toolbar is empty, menus are not clickable, references to QuickNote left
in profile.

Expected Results:  
Remove all references it created, and start up normally.

Some extensions are uninstalled ok, including Pike's Show Failed URL, All-in-One
gestures.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Had the same problem when I uninstalled the 0.9 compatbile Adblock

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Forgot to mention that was an installer build.

Perhaps should be blocking0.9?
The release should not have a bad extension-related bug as it had with 0.8...

Comment 3

[Dimitrios]

Are you sure you tested it with a branch (Aviary) build? I see you requested 0.9
blocking which means that the bug appears on a branch build. However, using
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2004-06-04-09-0.9/FirefoxSetup.exe,
I noticed that the provided extension cannot be installed (it doesn't appear on
the EM). So, wrt Firefox 0.9-1.0 branch, this bug is invalid.

Comment 4

[Jed Brown]

Using the Firefox build from comment #3 and the 0.5.8 build of QuickNote causes
the same issue:
(QN 0.5.8: http://jedbrown.net/dev/Mozilla/quicknote_dev_0_5_X_ff0.9.xpi)

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I downloaded this nightly:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2004-06-03-12-0.9/FirefoxSetup.exe

The extension appeared in the EM for me. It _has_ 0.9's install.rdf.

I thought trunk builds were still using old EM, weren't they?

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I can reproduce this with a dummy extension with an overlay. Ben, we need to
delete chrome.rdf and the overlayinfo when we uninstall extensions.

Comment 7

[Jed Brown]

On today's (June 5th) windows .zip Aviary build, the QN installs correctly, and
on un-install screws up Firefox on first restart, then on the 2nd or 3rd
restart, Firefox goes back to normal (working), although varies on which
startup. I too believe it is a chrome.rdf and overlay issue.

Comment 8

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Created attachment 150117 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Make Extension Manager handle chrome registration arcs that don't include the
provider name, e.g. 
<em:content>content/</em:content>
by inspecting the contents.rdf at that location and gleaning provider names
from it. 

Then ensure that the Chrome Registry also handles overlaid stylesheets provided
by the extension and removes them correctly when the extension is uninstalled.

Comment 9

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Fixed in the EM, which is branch only. 

Comment 10

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

It no longer hangs on startup. Great!

Though I noticed Firefox still leaves references to QN in chrome\chrome.rdf.
While it isn't very bad, I think ideally they should be deleted too.

Comment 11

[PikeUK]

Created attachment 150263 [details]
This one still breaks on uninstall

Uninstalling this XPI causes the dead toolbars and the following message in the
console:

*** Failed to load overlay chrome://testext/content/testextOverlay.xul

on:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+


I'll reopen this bug, please let me know if you want me to file a different bug
instead.

Comment 12

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

bah!

ok
thanks for the test case pike. 

Comment 13

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Bah. Your contents.rdf is malformed. 

your package URI is

urn:mozilla:package:testext

and yet your chrome:name arc is "showfailedurl"

contents.rdf problem, not a EM problem. 

Comment 14

[PikeUK]

I think I'll give up on testcases I'm not having much luck lately, sorry for
wasting your time Ben.