553147 - Extensions experience random compatability errors

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Auro kena]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

its possible one or two might be incompatable and need updating tho l forget which, however the below list (items 1,2,3, and 5) intermittently work, generally they are usually always fine, but recently and more randomly l loose the spell check capabilites (the english dictonary addon) and others just stop working, l havent found any reports on the addons stating the issues which leads me to believe it could be something else, in either case the problem is sometimes annoying tho its more of an inconvenience as l can use firefor normally in all other aspects.

Current extensions with issues:
1. British English Dictionary
2. Download Sort
3. Quick Drag
4. Save Complete
5. Update Notifier



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Firefox
Actual Results:  
intermittent loss of addons (generally the same ones)

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Please report issues with addons to the addon developers. You didn't provide any information on what is going on, and we can't fix their addons for them.

Comment 2

[Auro kena]

the issue is not with the addons as they work on another PC with a simular setup and version of Firefox.

basically as for whats going on, its pretty simple.. sometimes the addons load when firefox starts and other times they state  that they will be enabled when firefox restarts even though they have been installed some time, long story short some addons decide intermittently not to work and that it states that firefox needs to restart even tho they havent had an update and have been installed for some time so the issue isnt the addons but how firefox loads them ld expect because its not like the below state incompatability errors (only 4. Save Complete says its incompatable) 

as stated previously these addons are installed, they do work but intermittently decide not to stating that firefox needs to be restarted (but on occasion they dont always come back straight away)

List of addons that stated "firefox needs to restart" even tho they havent got any updates and have been installed for some time
1. British English Dictionary
2. Download Sort
3. Quick Drag
5. Update Notifier

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

OK, that was the information we needed on what was going on.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

The complete Add-ons Manager has been rewritten for Firefox 4. We will not fix issues on older versions. I will mark this bug as incomplete due to missing information, but feel free to reopen if you can reproduce it in Firefox 4.