272177 - Global extensions disabled on creation of a new Firefox profile.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248326

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Adam]

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

When a new user starts Firefox for the first time, global extensions installed
using the -install-global-extension command line switch are disabled by Firefox.

After the import wizard has been displayed the follwoing message appears:
"Any old extensions you have installed have been disabled."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download an extensions and save on the local file system.
2. Install global extensions from the command line, e.g. Tabbed browsing
preferences, using the -install-global-extension command line option, suppliying
the fully qualified path to the xpi downloaded in step 1.
3. Add a new user to the system and log on as the new user.
4. Start Firefox.

Actual Results:  
All global extensions previously installed, which worked on profiles created
before their installation are disabled.

Expected Results:  
Allowed the global extensions.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

I already filed this one, don't forget to include RESOLVED/VERIFIED bugs in your
search.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248326 ***

Comment 2

[Adam]

Sorry for wasting your time. I did spend an hour search through other bugs and
still missed it.