301027 - malformed item in saferfox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Michelle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

when I downloaded the updates this morning in firefox mozilla I got the
following error when installing saferfox expanded 2.3.13.1.0, install-6zg.rdf
provide by the item is malformed

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I don't know if the update did update with this error

I'm not sure about the severity of this problem but it looks like its in the
security so I chose the major ..hope I did this right ...first time reporting

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This is not a problem with Firefox, but a problem with the extension. The
extension owner provides a URL to look for updates for extensions. This URL
should contain a file explaining whether or not there is an update for this
extension. What's happened here is that the file at that URL is malformed or
"not right". This is probably INVALID.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I think that error is caused when the install.rdf file in the extension is
invalid. I know firefox's rdf parser changed at some point between branch and
trunk to be more strict.

Either way I'd say yes this is invalid. It's up to the extenaion author to make
his extension work.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

See comment 1 and comment 2. Please contact the extension author about this issue