503987 - installing XPIs from disk fails with "Factory not registered" exception in extensions.js :: installExtension

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090713 Shredder/3.0b3pre

Add On Manager -> Extensions -> Install button.  Select an XPI with the filepicker.  Nothing happens.  Look in the error console to see:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Factory not registered"  nsresult: "0x80040154 (NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.js :: installExtension :: line 2832"  data: no]

I saw this over the weekend, and now it seems to always be happening for me.  If it's actually a rare circumstance and I'm just the victim of bad luck or really weird machine configuration, it might not block b3.  But until we have reason to believe that's true, I think we need to block.

Adding qawanted in the hopes of getting other testers to take a swing at this on various platforms.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090713 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre

Might be worth checking with fresh installs etc.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Fresh profile : Ok; Dmose care to share which extension you tried to install over the week-end - it might have borked something.

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Ludo, it was Standard8's Jetpack port, but I ran into the error the first time I attempted to install it, so I don't think that itself is likely to be at fault.

Now I can't reproduce it either, in debug or release builds.  Removing from the blocking list entirely until either I start seeing it again and debug it, or we believe that someone other than me is seeing it, or we get steps to reproduce.

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

WFM too. Resolving WFM unless there's new information.