432316 - Vista: Crash when unintalling Google Gears while Firefox is running

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Aaron Boodman]

Background: On Windows, Gears uses the registry mechanism for installation (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extension_Packaging#Register_an_Extension_Location_Using_the_Windows_Registry).

This means that you uninstall it via add/remove programs, not via the normal button in the add ons dialog.

In Vista, Microsoft added the option to quit and restart applications which prevent the uninstaller from proceeding (in XP it just told the user to quit them). When you use this feature while uninstalling Gears, Firefox crashes.

Here is the Gears bug report:
http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/issues/detail?id=465

It has an attached .dmp file.

To reproduce, you can use the MSI here:
http://dl.google.com/gears/0.3.20.0/gears-win-opt.msi

Even though it is labeled "opt", it is actually a debug build and contains symbols.

Let me know what else I can do to help.

Comment 1

[timeless]

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_with_WinDbg

you could get the stack trace for us :)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

http://dl.google.com/gears/0.3.20.0/gears-win-opt.msi 404s