543381 - extensions.checkCompatibility per-application-version -- new extensions on install fail due to incompatibility

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Veritas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100131 Minefield/3.7a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100131 Minefield/3.7a1pre

extensions.checkCompatibility per-application-version boolean in about:config allow currently installed extensions to operate, but when you go to install a new extension, it fails after compatibility check.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set about:config extensions.checkCompatibility.3.x to false
2.install NEW extension
3.
Actual Results:  
will fail on extensions compatibility check

Expected Results:  
should install if the key is set to boolean false

i can confirm this with at least logmein's ff3 extension, though i have experienced it with every one ive tried.

it only started happening with the change implemented by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521905

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Veritas, do you see this with current nightly?

Comment 2

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

WFM, with compatibility checking off on latest nightly I can install extensions not marked for compatibility with the nightly.