327699 - "Funny" behavior when Extension-Manager haven't enough system-rights to manage all files - Gecko needs an better system-error handling

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

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

Hey all.

I was tied up some days with experimenting on the differential files in my Mums Thunderbird-Profil to fix up some "funny" behaviors like extensions not shown in the extension-manager and working anyway, unablebility of installing any extension, or uninstall them (allways getting an "will be uninstalled after reboot").
OK, I know - sometimes the easiest solution comes at last ... my f... SUSE-Server was kidding me with changing some rights of some files and some folders without any reason ... as I told ... what a damn ...

Anyway ... I think my error-hunting would be easier when the Gecko had done what I was awaiting from him ... give me any (windows-style-senseless)-error-message about that sometink was going wrong with my system-rights.

IMHO Gecko needs a better system-error-message-handling to tell the user some more than nothing.

Thx in advance.

Comment 1

[Nikolay Shopik]

That's known issue even in windows environment. sound like dupe for me

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nikolay, can you close this if appropriate?  But it still exists post an explanation?

Comment 3

[Nikolay Shopik]

Currently it will silently fail to install if you don't have permission to write into extension folder. But won't allow you to uninstall it (menu greyout) in same case. So it somewhat improved since then.

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

In the process of migrating remaining bugs to the new severity system, the severity for this bug cannot be automatically determined. Please retriage this bug using the new severity system.

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

There's not enough here to make this actionable. If there are still issues with this it'd be best to file a new bug with more details in Toolkit :: Add-ons manager.