466188 - Firefox 3.1 startup times out and reports that error occur while trying to find update for Ubiquity 0.1.2 addon

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[chris hofmann]

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081121 Minefield/3.1b2pre

I guess this could also be a problem with amo, or something in the logic for updating ubiguity.

steps to reproduce might look something like

run fx3.0.x 
install ubiquity from labs.m.o
run a trunk build or fx3.1b2 candidate.

startup takes a long time, and in my case showed an message that was something like "looking for update to user agent switcher"

actually it was the search for ubiquity that was failing and eventually timed out.

might be several bugs here to spin off.

-update checking dialog should show the addon that its actually stuck on
-ubiquity should be hosted on amo 
-and ought to be compat with fx3.1b2

Comment 1

[chris hofmann]

looks like ubiquity is on amo and marked compat with 3.1b2pre, so not sure why it might be timing out on the update check for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9527

Comment 2

[chris hofmann]

looking closer and trying to reproduce by clicking on [find updates] in the addon manager dialog I see that the status of the update check for the user agent switcher actually changes to "*finished checking* for user agent switcher" so that doesn't appear to be a bug.

still getting time out on the ubiquity check though.

Comment 3

[chris hofmann]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_3.1 has good info on areas to check or make changes to for compatibility with fx 3.1

Comment 4

[chris hofmann]

I think this is working now.  reopen if anyone still sees the problem.