264336 - explanation of disabled extension is quite vague

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Sekundes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10

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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the extension which is only compatible with app.extensions.version 0.10.
2. Set app.extensions.version to 0.9 via about:config.
3. The extension would be disabled due to the version control mechanism, but
show the string "Disabled - not compatible with Firefox 0.10" which is quite
vague to explain why the extension is not compatible with Firefox currently using.
Actual Results:  
"Disabled - not compatible with Firefox 0.10" is shown.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should explain its extension version which binds to
app.extensions.version instead of just the Firefox internal version.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Seems like there would only be two ways to get there: either you are using
version 1.1.1, a security update to 1.1 that made no difference to extensions,
in which case Granny doesn't want the extension manager scaring her by saying
she's only using 1.1, or you've manually changed it to test an old extension and
not changed it right back, in which case you've bought your own trouble.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

>you've manually changed it to test an old extension and not changed it right 
>back, in which case you've bought your own trouble
agreed. invalid.