Closed Bug 251931 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

can't update any extensions or themes.

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect, P1)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Add-ons Manager
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: stefan.vallaster, Assigned: bugs)

References

Details

(Keywords: fixed-aviary1.0)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040717 Firefox/0.9.1+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040717 Firefox/0.9.1+ can't update any extensions or themes, firefox shows the message: "Firefox was not able to find any available updates. Firefox encountered problems when tryubg to find updates for some items." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. click in the toolbar on tools 2. than click on extensions or themes 3. choose one theme or extensions and press the update button Actual Results: the same es everytime Expected Results: say that their is no update this time, or give me a message that their is an update to download
Confirming: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040722 Firefox/0.9.1+ I was able to reproduce this on WinXP. I created a new profile and did not see the problem. I then installed the beta of the ieview extension (http://ieview.mozdev.org/) and did see the problem. When I clicked "Details", the list box was empty.
Severity: normal → major
*** Bug 253353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 253075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirming based on dupes, carrying over blocking flags. Not sure if this should be in EM or Software Update. Message from bug 253353: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIObserverService.removeObserver]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/update/update.js :: anonymous :: line 423" data: no]
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0PR?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0?
I'm having the same problem and seeing the same error in the JS console on WinXP SP1. UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; compatible; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040730 Firefox/0.9.1+
I have the same problem under linux. The update window thinks for quite a while and then always fails to find updates despite updates being available upon manual inspection -- but I haven't yet verified whether I'm getting the same JS error.
OS: Windows 2000 → All
I still see this on 20040731 with the Js error mentioned above. A major feature is broken here so I really think this should be blocking+ Moreover, this does not only happen when trying to update themes or extensions. even clicking on the box on the status bar gives the same error.
Severity: major → critical
+ for PR1... need to figure out what is going on.. asa, can you help investigate?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0PR? → blocking-aviary1.0PR+
same problem with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3. (and 0.9.2 also) I have my own extensions, with their own update.rdf on a website. Updates works rarely. Some times, it works, i don't know why. The most of time, it doesn't work.
Firefox 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 only contained security updates. I would suggest trying one of the current aviary1.0 branch builds to see if those work any better.
This may be another bug (#253220 maybe?), but any attemp to update searches forever without another message/error when you have proxy enabled (bad for people with forced proxy) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX-AV)
*** Bug 247093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0? → blocking-aviary1.0+
Priority: -- → P1
I am using WinXP RC2, and clicked on the update button on the bottom of the tool bar, and got two updates for installation - one for the Tabbrowser Preferences, and one for the FF 1.0 preview release. I was able to update the TBP successfully, but was not able to update FF. Now I have a stop sign in the task bar telling me I still have one critical update, and when I click on it, it goes back to old disfuctional behavior as mentioned in the original comment for this bug. Oh, yeah, I have Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040809 Firefox/0.9.1+.
(In reply to comment #11) > ...but any attemp to update searches > forever without another message/error when you have proxy enabled (bad for > people with forced proxy) Works now with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M2) Well I get at least the usual "Firefox was not able to find any available updates."
Sorry for spamming, but it does not work anymore (searches forever again), don't remember having changed anything at all. Also the "not able to find any available updates" was not correct since I got that with Extensions who had newer Versions listed on the official Update-Site.
almost everything here that's needed is in place, just need another round of testing/verification.
This should work now.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Keywords: fixed-aviary1.0
Trying to update my extensions. When checking, display of names of checked extensions/themes would have been more convincing then just a throbber. After checking my extensions (Bookmark Backup 3.0, Adblock v.5 * nightly 39, Favicon picker 0.1, SpoofStick 1.02), Firefox Updates displays the "Updates found" panel with no updates (white window), which may be normal. However, the "Install now" button is live even though no updates were found, and when clicked, "Installing updates" goes into an endless loop. This cannot be considered as completely resolved. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040819 Firefox/0.9.1+
I agree. There are several problems: * It seems that I can update only one extension at a time. Still Firefox tells that it is "searching for compatibility updates to your Extensions and Themes" in plural. It would be nice to be able to update all extensions with one click. Now it is impossible to select more than one extension. And before it showed a list of failed updates, and that always contained only one extension. Now it does not show that list anymore, it does not tell which Extension(s) and Theme(s) failed to update. * Checking the extension update takes too long and it still does not work. I get no updates for Linkification 0.8.5 even though there seems to be version 0.9.4.
Addition to comment #18 Bookmark Backup contains an inaccessible URL, which may explain the odd behavior. The URL existed when the extension was installed and disappeared since, but it looks like the EM fails ungracefully in this case.
Looking further into this issue, problems arise because the operation of EM Update is much too obscure: 1. When the Extensions windows comes up no extension should be selected (if the last selected extension is beyond the display area you cannot see it is selected). This will allow to diaply "Please select extension to update", and make it clear that only the selected extension is processed. The name of the selected extension should be displayed in the "Checking for updates" window. 2. If the selected extension has no path for updates (optional in specs?) then EM should return immediately stating "Extension does not provide updates" and not churn away uselessly. This is the case for Favicon Picker. 3. If the website for which there is an update path is not reachable then this should be stated clearly. 4. "Firefox was not able to find any available updates" is really a defeater: if it is impossible to reach the website (as for Bookmark Backup), then display this cause. If, however, there was no update, then display "Extension is up to date".
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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