300866 - Uninstalling extension in Safemode corrupts some other extensions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[IU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050714 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

If you uninstall an extension (in my case, uninstalling Adblock Plus 0.5.8)in
safe mode some other extensions (in my case, Forcastfox and HTML Validator)
become corrupted.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FF 1.0.5
2. Create a profile for this test
3. Install the following extensions:
HTML Validator 0.62: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=249
Forecastfox 0.5.8: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=398
Adblock Plus 0.5.8: http://bene.sitesled.com/install.htm
4. Restart the browser
5. Set your Forecastfox location code.
6. Observe the HTML Validator, Adblock Plus, and Forecastfox icons in the
right-hand side of the FF status bar.
7. Restart the browser in Safemode
8. Uninstall Adblock Plus
9. Restart the browser in normal mode
10. Observe the now corrupted extensions, as indicated by their icons in the
right-hand side of the FF status bar.


Actual Results:  
HTML Validator and Forecastfox extensions are corrupted by uninstalling Adblock
Plus in Safemode.


Expected Results:  
Unistalling one extension should not result in the corruption of another extension.


Uninstalling extension in normal operating mode not affected.  Also, Deer Park
not affected.

My OS: WinXP SP2

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

These are all issues on the 1.0.x branch that would be very disruptive to solve.
They have been fixed on the trunk for 1.1