297956 - extensions or themes installed in Thunderbird 1.0.x don't appear on 1st launch of trunk build

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spun off from bug 286299 comment 27: extensions or themes installed in
Thunderbird 1.0.x don't appear on 1st launch of trunk build.

recipe
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1. created fresh profile with Tbird 1.0.2.
2. installed Flashgot and Timestamp extensions from UMO.
3. installed and selected to use  the Charamel theme.
4. restarted Tbird 1.0.2 to confirm that the extensions and theme worked fine.
5. started 2005061505-trunk Tbird build (tested on Mac OS X 10.4.1).

results: got the update wizard, went through that (no updates found, actually).
once Tbird trunk started up:

* both extensions were listed as active, but their chrome/UI were actually not
active at all.
* the default Pinstripe theme was used, not Charamel.

once I restarted the trunk build, the extensions and theme became active.

Comment 1

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

I just tried this on Win32 and wasn't able to reproduce. Bug 295732 prevents
writing to a couple of the extension files which might be the cause of this bug
and appears to affect only Mac OS X and Linux under yet to be determined
circumstances. I'll see if I can reproduce on a Mac OS X system hopefully tonight.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

I can't think of any reason why this would behave differently in thunderbird
than firefox. 

Comment 3

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

I just reproduced this on Mac OS X and this is the Thunderbird version of bug
295729. I am able to comment out the following line in nsExtensionManager.js
checkForMismatches and it starts up the first time with compatible extensions
and themes enabled and the Charamel theme in use.

this._showMismatchWindow(items);

Comment 4

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

I just tried to duplicate bug 295729 with Firefox and it behaves the exact same
way as Thunderbird in that there is no longer a crash but the call to
_showMismatchWindow hangs and extensions are not fully installed, etc.

Comment 5

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

This now WFM on Mac OS X Firefox... could someone please check if this bug is
still present in Mac OS X Thunderbird and if now resolve this bug?

Comment 6

[Žiga Sancin]

I've just updated on windows xp from tb1.0.5 to tb1.1a2 and can't completely
reproduce this bug. I've installed the Foxytunes and Image Zoom extensions
before the update just for testing purposes and there were some little problems.
The Foxytunes extension got disabled, but the Image Zoom extension didn't get
disabled (and caused a xul error in the status bar) although there were no
updates avalaible for both of them.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This now WFM on Mac OS X Firefox... could someone please check if this bug is
> still present in Mac OS X Thunderbird and if now resolve this bug?

This w4m going from tbird 1.0.2 (old, I know!) to 1.1alpha2. I had the Charamel
theme v0.93 and FlashGot v0.5.9.4, both which displayed fine upon starting 1.1a2.

marking w4m.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

forgot to mention: tested on Mac OS X 10.4.2.

Comment 9

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

I just saw it with trunk version 1.0+ (20050726) on Linux - after automatic
update I had to restart twice for a used Theme to become active.

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I just saw it with trunk version 1.0+ (20050726) on Linux - after automatic
> update I had to restart twice for a used Theme to become active.

how odd --this also now w4m on linux (fedora core 3, using the Gnome desktop
with the default Gnome theme), going from tbird 1.0.6 to 1.1alpha2 (using the
same third party theme and extension: Charamel 0.93 and Flashgot 0.5.9.4).