286759 - Can't install Wayback extension - firefox doesn't check for maxVersion bump at UMO

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[John E. Bartley, III K7AAY]

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

Extension fails to load with illogical error message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox as admin-equivalent user
2.
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=318
3. Click on Install Now
4. After countdown, click on Install

Actual Results:  
Install runs, then tells me this versionof the extension only works on versions
0.7 - 0.10 

Expected Results:  
Complete the install.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

Comment 2

[timeless]

may i ask what's illogical about that message?

Comment 3

[alanjstr]

You're running 1.0.  0.10 is Firefox preview release.

Comment 4

[John E. Bartley, III K7AAY]

(In reply to comment #2)
> may i ask what's illogical about that message?

0.10 comes before 0.7. Looks like the author meant to enter 0.7-1.0 and it's
supposed to work, but some other bug prevents it.

Comment 5

[John E. Bartley, III K7AAY]

(In reply to comment #3)
> You're running 1.0.  0.10 is Firefox preview release.

Yes. This extension, however, was selected after having filtered for 1.0, so why
does it fail?  It's supposed to work with 1.0, as per the web page.

Comment 6

[Unknown W. Brackets]

(In reply to comment #4)
> 0.10 comes before 0.7. Looks like the author meant to enter 0.7-1.0 and it's
> supposed to work, but some other bug prevents it.

John Bartley,

I'm afraid that's not exactly true.  You've got the numbering system just barely
off.  It goes like this:

0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.10, 1.0.

In this numbering system (which is not a decimal, but rather number + '.' +
number) 0.10 *is* above 0.7.  So, this error message is perfectly logical.

It sounds like you may have a cached version of the extension, however.  I
followed the steps to reproduce and encountered no problems.  Please try
clearing your cache and trying again.

Thanks,
-[Unknown]

Comment 7

[alanjstr]

Ok, so the problem is that Firefox isn't checking UMO to see that the
compatibility should have a maxver of 1.0 instead of 0.10.

Comment 8

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Can you still reproduce this, and if so, are you online when you're trying to
install? Are you sure nothing on your system blocks Firefox from checking for
compatibility bumps?

Comment 9

[Samir L. Boulema]

This is not a bug in Firefox, but just the way the extension was made. You can
bump the maxversion in the install.rdf, to make the extension install.

Marking as INVALID...

Comment 10

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

This probably indeed isn't a bug in Firefox, but it's also probably isn't an
extension problem either. The problem was correctly described in comment 7.

Comment 11

[timeless]

would someone please explain why this isn't a valid bug in firefox? i was under
the impression that the design of update (and its client) included provisions
for a client (e.g. firefox) to find out if there was an updated maxversion.