286766 - After clicking on the "Update Available" button and downloading/installing latest update to extension jslib lite 0.1.254 i no longer have control or access to my previously downloaded extensions or themes.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Jon Knight]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

The downloaded themes and extensions still appear in the TOOLS>THEMES and
TOOLS>EXTENSIONS windows but are no longer available from the Bookmark
Toolbar,the CUSTOMIZE window or the context menu. Other customizations still
appear where they were put, such as the standard PRINT and BOOKMARKS. Partial
list of extensions affected: Forecast Fox, Adblock, Foxy Tunes, USDHS Idiot
Level, I Must Not Fear!, Image Zoom, IEView, Live Bookmark This, Spoofstick,
Quicknote.... List of Themes: Noia Extreme.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on Updates Available (upper right portion of browser usually)
2.Download and install update to jslib lite
3.Restart the Firefox browser.

Actual Results:  
Lost access to all downloaded themes and extensions

Expected Results:  
Updated the jslib lite library. No other changes to anything.

I have installed FF on every windows pc i have serviced since 0.9 (around 125
stations). Most of my customers will not understand a bug nor will they
understand the open source development process. I classify this as a major bug
because of the impact on less technically inclined users of FF, who will simply
close the FF browser and go looking for that little e.

Comment 1

[Jon Knight]

1.uninstalled jslib lite v 0.1.272
2.reinstalled theme Noia extreme
3.restarted browser ok
4.reinstalled several extensions
5.browser refused to restart
6.uninstalled ff1.0.1 via windows xp add/remove programs - restarted pc
7.reinstalled ff 1.0.1 - failed to start
8.uninstalled per step6 above
9.searched hard drive for all references to firefox and deleted all
10.reinstalled ff1.0.1 - failed to start
11.uninstalled per step 6
12.removed all entries related to firefox via regedit - restarted pc
13.installed ff1.0.1 - started fine
14.raised severity to CRITICAL as this process Will drive our userbase away
see below for partial install log for the jslib 0.1.272


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.mozdevgroup.com/dropbox/jslib/signed/jslib_current_global_lite_signed.xpi
 --  2005-03-18 13:31:50
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     jsLib (version 0.1.272)
     -----

     ** INSTALL FOR JSLIB AS A JAR . . . 

Install: 0
     ** Removed user comreg.dat file: [SUCCESS]
     ** Removed user chrome.rdf file: [SUCCESS]
     ** 0
     [1/11]	Installing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\jslib.xpt
     [2/11]	Installing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\jslib-dom.js
     [3/11]	Installing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\jslib-service.js
     [4/11]	Create Folder: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\jsliblive
     [5/11]	Installing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla
Firefox\chrome\jsliblive\jsliblive.xul
     [6/11]	Installing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\jslib.jar
     [7/11]	Installing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla
Firefox\chrome\jsliblive\contents.rdf
     [8/11]	Register Package: jar:resource:/chrome/jslib.jar!//
     [9/11]	Register Content: resource:/chrome/jsliblive/
     [10/11]	Deleting file: C:\Documents and Settings\jk\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\pngrpr69.default\compreg.dat
     [11/11]	Deleting file: C:\Documents and Settings\jk\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\pngrpr69.default\chrome\chrome.rdf

     Install completed successfully  --  2005-03-18 13:31:51

Comment 2

[Jon Knight]

after rebuilding ff1.0.1 with same extensions and themes i cannot reproduce this
bug. when trying to install update for jslib through the update function in
TOOLS>OPTIONS>ADVANCED it appears that the update (jslib 0.1.272) is being
installed, reports that the update has been installed, but after restarting the
browser the extensions still lists jslib lite 0.1.234. Searching for the update
again reveals the update is reported as available. The auto update button which
appears on the menu bar operates as i have described here, appears to update but
does not.
this is occuring on a system that has never seen any version of ff except 1.0.1,
mozilla thunderbird 1.0, no other mozilla or netscape products. 1st install
including winXPsp2 fully patched on clean hard drive 8 days ago.
i will begin looking for this bug on other systems tomorrow(sat 19 march)
leaving critical until i check repro of bug tomorrow

Comment 3

[Jon Knight]

duplicate of bug 9583. 
Resolved as dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9583 ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

No, it's not.

Comment 5

[Jon Knight]

duplicate of MOZDEV bug 9583. 
Resolved as dup.

sorry bout that folks, didnt notice i was looking at 2 different organizations.
This is a duplicate of the MOZDEV bugzilla bug 9583.

Comment 6

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This is a duplicate of the MOZDEV bugzilla bug 9583.

Direct link for the lazy among us:
http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9583

Comment 7

[Pete Collins (MDG)]

Yea, I'm sorry about this guys, this was a mistake on my part. I was removing
the user chrome.rdf at install time because I want jsLib to be a forced global
install. Turns out Firefox doesn't regenerate this file like the chrome.rdf is
always regenerated in global chrome.

Also, turns out user chrome is used over global chrome. So if you have a user
chrome install of jsLib and the later version global chrome install, the older
user chrome is used by Firefox instead of global chrome.