298975 - extensions manager freeze when opening disabled extensions options

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Jerry Chong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050621 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050621 Firefox/1.0+

When clicking on the Options button while selecting an extension that was
disabled due to version incompatibilty the extension manager window stops
responding. The Deer Park window is not affected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a 1.0.x-only compatible extension (i.e Greasemonkey 0.3.3)
2. Upgrade to 1.0+. Said extension will be auto disabled.
3. Open extensions manager, select the disabled extension, and click Options.

Actual Results:  
The Extension Manager freezes.

Expected Results:  
Inform the user that the extension has been disabled, or do nothing at all.

Comment 1

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

This was a recent regreession and was fixed by bug 298186 which landed on the
same day as the build you are using. Try a current nightly build and if it is
fixed please close this bug as works for me.