336775 - Need a timeout for when check for update hangs on an extension

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308522

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[u88484]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060504 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006050405 [cairo]

Went to check for updates today and seems that the check is hanging while checking for an update for console2. I contacted author and said it works for him.  I get this in the console after about 10 seconds of checking on that extension:

Error: Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.statusText]
Source file: file:///C:/Program%20Files/firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js
Line: 6116


Expected: timeout set for X amount of seconds to then report check failed for whatever reason.

Also the status bar reports still checking for in my case NTT when the javascript console reports that the check has ended. Thats for another bug though I assume?

Comment 1

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

I've already discussed with Darin on how best to handle these sort of issues and I'm planning on adding code to manage the xmlhttprequest once I have time to do so in bug 308522

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308522 ***