272653 - Need a way to uninstall global extensions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Joe Shaw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

People who package their extensions on linux (or even use "make install" when
building it) need a -remove-global-extension, so that they can be run in the
uninstall scripts of RPMs or with "make uninstall".  Simply removing the files
on disk causes my Firefox to hang.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Quit firefox
2. Delete the files off the disk as if they were removed from an automated process
3. Restart firefox.

Actual Results:  
The menus and such come up, but the UI is "hung".  The menus are inoperable, you
can't type in the address bar, etc.


I'm marking this "major" because it's a huge deal for Linux distributors who may
want to install (and remove!) extensions for the whole system.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

major is for broken functions. This is an enhancement request.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

The lack of -remove-global-extension is also a problem for Milton.  Milton's
installer installs a Firefox extension using -install-global-extension, but its
uninstaller has no way to remove the extension.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

This probably will be irrelevant when bug 286034 is fixed

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Fixed with patch for bug 286034. Just deleting the extension folder does the trick.

Comment 5

[djpohly]

*** Bug 295155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***