250439 - Global Extension Installation Not Working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248326

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Daniel Morante]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Installing Extenstions globably does not work for a new profile.  If I use the
"-install-global-extenstion" command, the extestion installs fine if I ALREADY
have a profile.  If I delete the Mozilla folder in Application Data, the
extenstions are no longer functional.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
A fresh new copy of Windows 2000 (no firefox appdata folder)
A fresh copy of Firefox 0.9.1
Do a normal installation
Start Firefox, then Close it (my Profile is genorated)

I want to install extenstions globaly, I download the XPI's to my hard drive,
ieview.xpi and useragentswitch.xpi
I execute the commands

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -install-global-extension
"C:\ieview.xpi"

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -install-global-extension
"C:\useragentswitch.xpi"

I open Firefox I see the extensions have been installed.
I close Firefox and delete my profile directory.
I start Firefox and see a message "All old Extenstions have been disabled".
I don't see my extensions. (but they are listed in the Extenstion manager)
I restart Firefox and I still don't see my extenstions 
Actual Results:  
"All old Extenstions have been disabled".  Global extension install is useless.

Expected Results:  
Extenstions should be present in all profiles, existing or newly created.

Thunderbird suffers from the same bug.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

I already reported this one, but it's invalid, there is a workaround on the
other bug though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248326 ***