277253 - a wrongly packaged extension could lead to never being able to uninstall it (through normal ways)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Eric Devolder]

When using a badly packaged extension (for instance, make a mistake in
install.rdf; remove the .jar extension to the Description tag) would result in
being unable to uninstall it. Firefox will always display that "the extension
will be uninstalled at next restart" in the extensions window; but it stays over
 several restarts.

As an indication, it seems that the entry in extensions.rdf file contains both
attributes em:toBeInstalled="true" and em:toBeUninstalled="true".

The workaround is to patch this file and remove the em:toBeInstalled="true"
attribute, and restart Firefox. It then uninstall properly the extension.

Comment 1

[Eric Devolder]

Attachment: example of wrongly packaged extension, that will trigger the problem.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I can confirm that the attached extension behaves like described on Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0.

However, the error I see in console is the same as in bug 266965, so I believe
this will be fixed with a patch to that bug. Settings a dependecy for now.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Can you retest with 1.5 release candidates? We have made significant improvements in 1.5.

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Using the attached xpi this is WFM with 1.5