260978 - installation reported as success, then generic error received when installing most extensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262854

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Linux 0.10, with a new profile created in 0.10.

Most extensions (5 of the 7 thus far) I attempt to install, either from
updates.mozilla.org or the extension's home page itself, I receive the error:
"Download error". This is utterly unhelpful. I am able to download the file fine
with a program such as wget. Additionally, the extension manager reports
"Install Success".

Will attach screen capture of result after clicking Install.

(The bug here isn't /necessarily/ the fact that extension install isn't working
for me, it's the fact that I can't figure out what the problem is. Firefox
should not report success in one window, and error in another for the same
action, and it should definitely not say "could not be installed because:
Download error".)

I'll be happy to turn some debugging prefs on and post logs as I suspect this
won't be reproducable for most others. Just tell me what to set.

Comment 1

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Attachment: Screenshot of dialogs

Comment 2

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Removing my prefs.js and user.js allowed extensions to install in 0.10.1.
Decreasing severity to normal. Still two issues here. One, something in my prefs
mysteriously breaks most (80%ish) extension installs. Two, the error dialog
blows chunks. Inlining my config files:

PREFS.JS
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar", 0);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateDate", 1097022628);
user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 12288);
user_pref("browser.download.defaultFolder", "/home/jmd");
user_pref("browser.download.lastDir", "/home/jmd");
user_pref("browser.download.save_converter_index", 1);
user_pref("browser.preferences.lastpanel", 4);
user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Google");
user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "about:blank");
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.7.3");
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground", true);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_flip", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true);
user_pref("dom.event.contextmenu.enabled", false);
user_pref("extensions.disabledObsolete", true);
user_pref("extensions.lastAppVersion", "0.10");
user_pref("extensions.update.lastUpdateDate", 1096934615);
user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, EUC-KR,
windows-1256, windows-1252");
user_pref("keyword.URL",
"http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=");
user_pref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 2);
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
user_pref("privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage", false);
user_pref("security.OCSP.URL", "");
user_pref("security.OCSP.signingCA", "Builtin Object Token:Verisign Class 1
Public Primary OCSP Responder");
user_pref("security.enable_java", false);
user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);
user_pref("xpinstall.whitelist.add", "");



USER.JS
user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 12288);
//user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true);
//user_pref("layout.frames.force_resizability", true);
//user_pref("accessibility.tabfocus", 2);
pref("ui.key.accelKey", 17);
pref("ui.key.generalAccessKey", 224);
pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 18);
pref("ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses", true);

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

This breaks it (most probably):
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 0);
it is bug 259428.

Still, it would indeed be nice to have more detailed explanation. I suggest that
you change your summary if cache.disk.capacity was your problem.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262854 ***