585250 - Minefield fails to install extension on Mac OS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Damien Clauzel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100805 Minefield/4.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100805 Minefield/4.0b4pre

I cannot install extensions in Firefox 4.

For an extension marked as compatible with Firefox 4.0b2pre, when clicking on the install button, Firefox displays a popup balloon saying that it could not be installed because Minefield cannot modify the needed file.

I have correct rwx access rights on all the application and profile's files.

Also, the Error console contains the following entry:
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Warning: WARN addons.xpi: Failed to start download: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) nsIProperties.get" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame resource://gre/modules/FileUtils.jsm
FileUtils_getDir :: line 62" data: no]
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When I download manually the extension I am willing to install, and open it with Firefox, I am presented the usual popup window asking for confirmation. When validating, the window disappears and the extension is showing in the addons manager.

But the addon behave likes it was broken (no action, disabled icon in the toolbar, etc); hinting that something is wrong in the installation.

I suspect that Firefox is not able to access correctly my profile; I did put it on another volume and created a softlink pointing to it; I did the same for the cache directory. So those two paths are (valid) links : "~/Library/Application Support/Firefox" and "~/Library/Caches"



Troubleshooting Information  
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  Application Basics

        Name
        Firefox

        Version
        4.0b4pre

        Profile Directory

          Show in Finder

        Enabled Plugins

          about:plugins

        Build Configuration

          about:buildconfig

  Extensions

        Name

        Version

        Enabled

        ID

  Modified Preferences

      Name

      Value

        browser.places.importBookmarksHTML
        false

        browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
        2

        browser.startup.homepage
        about:mozilla

        browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
        rv:2.0b4pre

        extensions.lastAppVersion
        4.0b4pre

        font.minimum-size.x-western
        9

        font.name.monospace.x-western
        DejaVu Sans Mono

        font.name.sans-serif.x-western
        DejaVu Sans

        font.name.serif.x-western
        DejaVu Serif

        keyword.URL
        https://[www.google.com]/search?q=

        network.cookie.prefsMigrated
        true

        places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
        96636

        privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
        true

        security.warn_viewing_mixed
        false
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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start firefox
2.try to install an addon
3.see popup balloon  
Actual Results:  
Well, a popup balloon and no extension installed

Expected Results:  
An installed extension 

The problem also happens with the stable version of Firefox, and appears around version 3.2 (if I remember correctly).

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Does it work if you create an additional profile without softlinks ?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 2

[Damien Clauzel]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does it work if you create an additional profile without softlinks ?
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Yes, it works on another machine not using softlinks; but it doesn't work too for a new profile on my account.

Also, I don't know if it is relevant, but the following directory are also softlinks: /Users, ~/Downloads, ~/Library/Logs, ~/Library/Caches

Comment 3

[luong tu]

You can also install it with developer mode.

You can check it at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Temporary_Installation_in_Firefox

Thanks you!

http://ototuan.com

Comment 4

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mass-closing old Extension Compatibility bugs that relate to legacy add-ons or NPAPI plug-ins. If you think this bug is still valid, please reopen or comment.

Sorry for the bug spam, and happy Friday!