361812 - GB dictionary not compatible for Firefox 2.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 375023

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Scott Grayban]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-CA; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-CA; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

No one has updated the version for FF2 in the GB dictionary.

  <Description about="urn:mozilla:install-manifest">
    <em:id>[e-mail]</em:id>
    <em:version>1.19</em:version>
    <em:targetApplication>
      <Description>
        <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
	<em:minVersion>2.0b1</em:minVersion>
	<em:maxVersion>2.0b2</em:maxVersion>
      </Description>
    </em:targetApplication>
    <em:targetApplication>
      <Description>
        <em:id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</em:id>
	<em:minVersion>2.0a1</em:minVersion>
	<em:maxVersion>2.0b1</em:maxVersion>
      </Description>
    </em:targetApplication>
    <em:targetApplication>
      <Description>
        <em:id>{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}</em:id>
	<em:minVersion>1.1a</em:minVersion>
	<em:maxVersion>1.1a</em:maxVersion>
      </Description>
    </em:targetApplication>
    <em:name>British English Dictionary</em:name>
  </Description>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just install it then do a update on the addons. You will see that is says its not compatible.


Actual Results:  
FF2 disables the dictionary.

Expected Results:  
I expected the dictionaries to load and work.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/ installs fine.

Comment 2

[Scott Grayban]

(In reply to comment #1)
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/ installs fine.
> 

Hmmm read again.... I never said it didn't install.

Comment 3

[Scott Grayban]

(In reply to comment #1)
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/ installs fine.
> 

And that one is also bugged. Look at the xpi file again. I have.

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

The Dict from comment #1 works fine here in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1pre) Gecko/20061126 BonEcho/2.0.0.1pre

I can install and use this dict.

Comment 5

[Scott Grayban]

Take directly from the xpi file from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/

PLEASE look at it yourself. Change the .xpi to .zip and open it.

I can open it in linux with my filemanager zip:~/downloads/british_english_dictionary-1.19-fx+zm+tb.xpi/install.rdf

      <Description>
        <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
	<em:minVersion>2.0b1</em:minVersion>
	<em:maxVersion>2.0b2</em:maxVersion>
      </Description>
    </em:targetApplication>
    <em:targetApplication>
      <Description>
        <em:id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</em:id>
	<em:minVersion>2.0a1</em:minVersion>
	<em:maxVersion>2.0b1</em:maxVersion>
      </Description>
    </em:targetApplication>
    <em:targetApplication>
      <Description>
        <em:id>{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}</em:id>
	<em:minVersion>1.1a</em:minVersion>
	<em:maxVersion>1.1a</em:maxVersion>
      </Description>

Now how is anyone getting it installed when it CLEARLY says for TB and FF that the versions allowed are 2.0b1 - 2.0b2 ????

FF id is ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384
TB id is 3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6

I am not stupid nor am I liar here.

Comment 6

[[:Aleksej]]

on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 :
If I install Forecastfox from amo, don't restart, and then try to install it again, Fx says it's incompatible.
I've downloaded it, and the install.rdf says maxVersion 2.0.
The install.rdf in the installed one says 2.0.0.*.
There is an install.js in the extension.

Comment 8

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The install.rdf certainly doesn't claim compatibility with Firefox 2, however it shouldn't really need to since when that is incompatible Firefox checks with AMO for updated compatibility details and those claim that the extension works up to 3.0a1.

https://addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=1&id=[e-mail]&version=1.19&maxAppVersion=2.0b2&status=userEnabled,incompatible&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=3.0a3pre&appOS=Darwin&appABI=x86-gcc3

That said I have experienced issues with the compatibility check failing, possibly related to redirects of the update url which AMO currently does however I have yet to find or trace it sensibly.

Comment 12

[Tim Small]

Should this really be marked as a dup of bug#375023?  I know that fixing 375023 would fix this, but would it not be best just to work around that issue for the time being, by fixing the install.rdf?

This currently means that effectively no UK users can install dictionaries for either Firefox, or Thunderbird.

This is going to hit thousands more UK users, once Thunderbird 2.0 is released...

Comment 13

[Scott]

Hmmm I have this already fixed for many months now at http://clearurlbutton.mozdev.org/dictionaries/subprojectpage.html

Actually I fixed this when this report was made seeing that now one seemed to care about it when it was reported here.