303698 - add better error-handling of extensions (add error-msg-box) (debugmode)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Tobias B. Besemer [:BesTo] (QA)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050806 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050806 Firefox/1.0+

After installing some extensions in my deer park-nightly I get the attached
error-msg at every new start of dp.
Allready tryed to uninstall and reinstall the extensions.
Tab are gone - need help.
(Can somebody tell me how to debug & fix this ???)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Tobias B. Besemer [:BesTo] (QA)]

Attachment: error-msg

Comment 2

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

WFM

Does it also do this when running in safe mode?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

If not you will need to figure out which extension you installed is causing this
by using the process of elimination (e.g. disable one, restart, check if problem
still exists, disable another one, repeat), uninstall it, and report the problem
to the extension author.

Comment 3

[Tobias B. Besemer [:BesTo] (QA)]

OK. Seems like its comeing from Tab-Extension. Ive reported this to the author
allready. Anyway, would there be an bug to handle such error-msgs better in the
futrure? Like showing the name of the extension or give an debug-button or such
an think?

Comment 4

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

There isn't a way to add this... there is a good chance that if you look in the
js console that it would be possible to figure out which extension was failing.
Also, a user should never see these types of errors when using extensions that
have been tested to work with a specific release.

resolved -> invalid