309741 - extension (Linky) prevents browser update

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Sean Barrett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: unknown (Firefox 1.0.6)

[Please note that this bug report is on version 1.0.6 of Firefox, but it is the
nature of the bug that it can only be reported for old versions, not the latest
version. Because I currently have 1.0.7, and I downloaded 1.0.6 through the
automatic updater, I do not know what the Build Identifier for the 1.0.6
software was.]

After learning there was a critical security update to Firefox (that is, version
1.0.7 came into existence), and not getting any automatic report of an update
existing from Firefox, I went into the Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Software
Update and clicked "Check Now". FF proceeded to detect and download a supposed
update for an extension I had installed, Linky, but did not mention any other
updates, so I wrongly assumed I had the critical update already. Repeated
attempts to run "Check Now" continued to download this update for Linky (IIRC,
Linky "1.7.0"), which never successfully installed on restarting Firefox. This
was true even after I tried unchecking the "periodically check" flags for
extensions in an attempt to get it to check the browser. (This may be a bug in
that extension, but that's not relevant to this bug; browser updates should not
be broken by extensions.) This was true for multiple attempts across multiple days.

After uninstalling the Linky extension, "check now" successfully reported the
Firefox 1.0.7 critical security upgrade and allowed me to download it.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
best guess:
1. Install FF 1.0.6
2. Install last version of Linky for FF 1.0.6. (2.6.0, maybe. I don't know,
since I uninstalled it. http://gemal.dk/mozilla/linky.html )
3. Check for updates

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This looks like bug 288054. Did you have http://gemal.dk/ in your list of sites
allowed to install software?

Comment 2

[Sean Barrett]

(In reply to comment #1)

http://gemal.dk/ is not on my whitelist of sites-allowed-to-install.
However, this did not result in a hang, which is what bug 288054 describes. It
appeared to download and install an extension update, with the 'must restart
firefox to update' comment at the end. I was able to continue using the browser
and the prefs and such to my heart's content. (But restarting firefox resulted
in no change in Linky, and checking again repeated the process from the beginning.)

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Closing out bugs in the old style updater, which are superseded by the new system in 1.5.