269729 - Some extensions fail to install or uninstall upon restart of the browser

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Erick Paquin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

On my windows machine this is not a problem but...in my Fedora machine some
extensions (not all of them) don't install or uninstall properly after the
browser restarts. It says : "This item will be installed/uninstalled after you
restart firefox" depending if i tried to install or uninstall an extension but
when I restart it stays the same...which means that for corrupt installs I can't
even uninstall them because they are NOT installed...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See details above
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Expected Results:  
expect it to work perfectly as it does on my Windows machine!

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Related/dupe of bug 250538

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Please provide example extensions urls. This may be caused by incorrect
permissions set on files inside XPIs (packaged by bad Win programs). Please
check them.

Comment 3

[adler]

Attachment: screen shot of firefox - nothing is possible

after installing the extensions (the ones displyed in the firefox webpage as
the top) Firefox stoped to work. I tried to uninstall all of the extensions and
it didn't work... and then it became worst.
See the photos, that's my firefox. If I type a URL it doesn't work.

- I cannot get rid of the left column (bookmarks, the [x] doesn't work).
Although it works via the menu (View -> Sidebar). But when I restart FF I get
an empty left sidebar;
- Bookmark menu: doesn't show any bookmarks. If I click in "manage bookmarks" I
get them... in the new window to manage them;
- and no quick links or other icons that were in FF toolbar appear

I unstalled FF, downloaded it again and then I installed it. It's the same...
this means that I cannot use FF anymore :(

I hope this will have some fix...

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

it won't have any fix, unless you provide the urls for the XPIs that caused trouble.

Comment 5

[adler]

(In reply to comment #4)
> it won't have any fix, unless you provide the urls for the XPIs that caused
trouble.

I understand you... but after I uninstall all the XPIs FF still didn't work...
so I don't know which one was. Anyway do you have any hint to fix my FF? because
I uninstall it as well (then installed it) but it still didn't work :(

Comment 6

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Create a new profile <http://mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile> and copy your
bookmars/other data you might need there. Ask on forums or IRC for assistance if
you need it.

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

No reply from reporter, marking as wfm

Please reopen if you can reproduce this with a trunk build and answer the
question in comment 2