317931 - Extension installation notification bar non-functional in 1.5 RC3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307770

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051126 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051126 Firefox/1.6a1

Sounds weird, but I can't install extensions anymore from a webpage.
I get a new window or a dead button "Edit Options".

I have no clue what I'm doing wrong, for this is tested in the latest nightly and a new profile.

If I'm not sleeping and this is really happening this is critical! :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.soft32.com/download-FlashGot-124493-5.html
2.Click Install
3.Result: edit Options button dead

1.Go to http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=380
2.Click Install
3.Result: new blank window.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Sorry for the wrong user agent string; this is not a trunk problem but branch.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Why should this be blocking 1.0.8? It's not a security problem and from what you say is only a problem in 1.5.

Please say what build you were testing with and see if the problem still occurs in a new profile. I have no trouble installing extensions in 1.5 RC3.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Tested in the latest branch nightly and a new profile (default settings).
So xpinstall.enabled is already set to true.
But yet when try to install extensions and there is a tick in the box "Warn me when web sites try to install extensions or themes" (=default) I can't install extensions. First I need to uncheck that box but do average users know that?
I thought that the notification bar should be able to make that change with the "Edit Options" button but that is dead.

Don't tell me these are all side effects of Bug 310737 :?
But I see it also in a build of 1 Nov 05 so it must be well-known.  

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Why should this be blocking 1.0.8? It's not a security problem and from what
> you say is only a problem in 1.5.
Hm, I thought 1.5 and 1.0.8 were the same.

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Why should this be blocking 1.0.8? It's not a security problem and from what
> > you say is only a problem in 1.5.
> Hm, I thought 1.5 and 1.0.8 were the same.
>
I confused it with 1.8.0 lol  

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

With user_pref("xpinstall.whitelist.required", false); the problem will be solved.

Comment 7

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Well thats the setting controlled by the stupidly worded pref in the options.

With it set to true I get a yellow bar at the top saying that firefox stopped installation and an edit options that opens the whitelist options.

With it false the xpinstall dialog appears.

What branch version are you using?

Comment 8

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

"Edit Options" seems to work for this site: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/clav/#almostfullscreen

I'm still getting a white window at http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=380 and no bar.

http://www.soft32.com/download-FlashGot-124493-5.html still fails here as described in comment 0.

Maybe I had just two bad examples.

Comment 9

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Confirming. For the two examples the notification bar is either not shown or the options button is unusable when shown.

I'm guessing this isnt going to happen for 1.5, and there are no flags to request that anyway but this should be fixed pronto.

Comment 10

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

From discussion on IRC this is the same as bug 307770

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307770 ***