296357 - Crash upon starting up when installing extensions by dropping the .xpi in the extension folder

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[philippe (part-time)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601 Firefox/1.0+

When dropping an extension (.xpi) in the profile/.../extension folder to install
it,and starting Firefox, the browser shows the dialogue box asking if it is OK.
After clicking 'install', the browser start loading, but immediately crashes.
The  second attempt to start up the browser is succesfull and the extension is
correctly installed.

This doesn't happen if I install an extension that is not supposed to work with
Deerpark.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drop .xpi file in extension folder
2. start browser
3. installer asks for permission, click 'install'
 

Actual Results:  
crash

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

Attachment: apple crash log

Comment 2

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

I have also been able to reproduce this per my comments in bug 295729.

confirming

Comment 3

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

I suspect that bug 295729 may be related but have nothing but suspicion at this
point.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Isn't this a dup? The crashlog is the same, we're crashing in
nsGlobalWindow::SetNewDocument during some kind of shutdown.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I'm not aware of any crashes on shutdown in SetNewDocument offhand...

Comment 6

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

(In reply to comment #4)
> Isn't this a dup? The crashlog is the same, we're crashing in
> nsGlobalWindow::SetNewDocument during some kind of shutdown.
It is probably a dup of bug 295729 and instead of duping I just marked it
depends since the startup sequence where we end up crashing may be different for
the two cases.

Comment 7

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

a not so useful talkback when reproducing this crash
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=TB6576440Z

Comment 8

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

This is now WFM after the patch for bug 295729 landed.