268804 - enable extension/theme in the extension/theme context menu should be enabled after upgrading firefox

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 258062

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Csomortáni Hunor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

After upgrading Firefox, extensions/themes which were not uptdated have enable
extension context menu item disabled.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
User should be able to enable incompatible extensions/themes at his/her _own
risk_. Before enabling, _warning box_ should ask for confirmation and pointing
out to start Firefox in Safe Mode if enabling extension/theme causes Firefox to
crash (Checkbox to place Safe Mode icon on the desktop).

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

this bug is essentially the same as bug 258062. You may want to add your comment
about allow *enabling* of disabled extensions there, although I think it is obvious.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258062 ***