254774 - Feature Request: Display Progress of Extension Installation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246687

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Stuart Longland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: 

Hi All, 
  Just picked a truckload of extensions to install, and I'm currently waiting 
for Firefox to finish installing them.  I had the following idea. 
 
  Is it possible for the progress of installation to be displayed?  I realise 
that in my case, yes, the installation will eventually finish, and for the 
moment, I have Konqueror for browsing in the meantime.... but it would be nice 
to know how far through it is, and possibly how long to wait. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to update.mozilla.org 
2. Start selecting a bunch of extensions 
3. Close Firefox, restart and go make yourself a cup of tea/coffee whilst you 
wait. 
 
Actual Results:  
Dialogue box appeared: "Firefox is finishing installing extensions.  This could 
take a minute..." 
 
http://www.longlandclan.hopto.org/~stuartl/firefox_installing_ext.png 

Expected Results:  
Nothing wrong with actual results, other than the fact, I don't know what's 
happening.  I'd like to see what activities are occurring, and some indication 
of the progress.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

What version of Firefox were you using, what extensions did you install and did
it ever finish? In reality if you ever see that message then something has
probably gone wrong (since it should normally be nearly instantaneous).

Comment 2

[Stuart Longland]

Okay, as far as I know, this was in Firefox 0.9.1 or 0.9.2 under Gentoo Linux. 
(GTK2 build from mozilla.org)

The extensions, there were a good 20 or so.  The list included:
 * AdBlock
 * Checky
 * Web Developer
 * BBCode
 * SwitchProxy
 * CopyURL +
 * AniDisable
 * EditCSS

I've done the same sort of thing on my laptop (using Firefox 0.9.1 -- same OS)
without any hassles.  It took a while, but the browser eventually made an
appearance.

On my main machine, where I'm getting this problem, I've waited more than half
an hour, yet still the above dialogue box shows.  Tried running with root
privledges (via 'sudo'), to no avail.  There is no indication of an error at all.

Basically, to fix the problem, I usually end up blasting away
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox which got rid of the error -- downside is, it got rid of
my settings too. :-/

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is a duplicate. Please find the original and resolve this one. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

it is a duplicate of one of bugs, bug 248125 tracks. Not enough information
here, so making a guess.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246687 ***

Comment 5

[PikeUK]

(In reply to comment #4)
> it is a duplicate of one of bugs, bug 248125 tracks. Not enough information
> here, so making a guess.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246687 ***

Bug 246687 was fixed in 0.9.1 which is what the reporter said they were using in
comment 2. Having said that since the bug doesn't have enough information to be
acted on and since I can't find a better alternative I won't undupe it.