305078 - Update window progress bar never gets to 100% complete for extensions as no timeout occurs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Dave Sheridan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Taskbar popup says that updates are available but the update window never gets
to 100% complete and so I can not update my extensions. This only affects
extensions - when updates are available for Firefox itself, these are fine.

I believe that this is due to one or more sites being checked returning either
bad data or no data - maybe no network timeout is occurring. Unfortunately,
instead of realising that these extensions can't be checked for updates, Firefox
just refuses to let me see the ones that do have updates available.

There is no way to tell which extensions do have available updates - clearly
Firefox does know about these since it's told me that some exist, but I can't
get that information out of Firefox.

The extensions I have installed are:
Advanced Highlighter Button
Adblock
AniDisable
IE View
Linkification
Nuke Anything
SyncMarks
Tabbrowser Preferences
USer Agent Switcher
Minimize To Tray
SpoofStick
BlankLast
SessionSaver 2
del.icio.us
Foxylicious
LiveLines
Bloglines Toolkit
Greasemonkey
Platypus
Google Suggest

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on the blue "Christmas tree" button.
2.Wait. For hours if you like.
Actual Results:  
The progress bar never reaches 100% and the only available option in the dialog
is Cancel.

Expected Results:  
Instant dialog telling me about the extensions that Firefox had already noticed
were updated - there was no need to check them all *again*.

Alternatively, check everything one more time but to stop this process after a
few minutes even if it hasn't reached 100%, presenting me with the results
obtained before timeout and a message telling me which extensions did time out.

Comment 1

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

reporter: are you still experiencing this or is it now working?

Comment 2

[Dave Sheridan]

I think that it was caused by the Google add-in. I haven't seen the bug since I
removed the add-in (and noticed that it went away shortly after removing it in
the first place). Not sure if the bug is still there or if it has been fixed by
later versions.

Sorry for not updating this earlier...

Comment 3

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Resolving invalid. Open it back up if you experience this one again.