310422 - Blank description not restored when re-enabling a description-less extension

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[PikeUK]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050928 Firefox/1.4

This is probably the most trivial EM bug ever filed but anyway...

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install an extension that doesn't have an <em:description> field.
2. Goto Tools->Extensions.
3. Right-click the extension, click disable (or uninstall).
4. Right-click the extension, click enable.

Actual results:
The description for the extension still says "<extension> will be disabled when
Firefox is restarted".

Expected results:
The description should return to being blank.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

Attachment: Empty Description Testcase

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

I don't know if this is the same bug, but a disabled extension that has just
been set by "Find Updates" to "No updates found for ..." will not change back to
the Enabled state when I select "Enable."

While most users won't be playing around with enabling/disabling extensions,
this is probably something that should be fixed, nonetheless. Requesting
blocking1.8rc1.

It's probably some easy patch to fix it, too. :P

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

this isn't a critical stop ship bug which is the current criteria we are using
for RC1 approvals. 

Comment 4

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

Fixed on trunk by the checkin for bug 329045... tested both scenarios using venkman