663053 - some addon's are not updated

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 527141

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Alex]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110608 Firefox/6.0a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110608 Firefox/7.0a1

There are add-ons which do not find new versions when you click "Check for updates" but problem only in latest nightly

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download previous version of some addon
2. Try to find update for it

Actual Results:  
No updates found

Expected Results:  
Found a new version of addon

Not all addons cannot found the updates, i do not know what is the reason of this. But I use the x64 version, maybe problem in this.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please always provide an example.
open about:support and copy/paste one extension information in this bug report.
And you are sure that there is a new version of this addon available on addons.mozilla.org ?

Comment 2

[Alex]

Ok, for example this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/120957/downthemall-2.0.5-sm+fx.xpi?src=version-history - link to 2.0.5 version, latest version is 2.0.6, and after restart try to find update for it, and will not be found Updates. By the way with latest nighlty update disappear all from about:support http://i3.imageban.ru/out/2011/06/10/e191531d8c56a42c272c47fc1a7a96bb.png

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The latest version of DownThemAll isn't compatible with nightlies so we won't offer it as an update (even if you've disabled compatibility checks for add-on installation). Is there any example where the add-on is compatible with nightlies?

Comment 4

[Alex]

None. But for the testers to be the solution. How do they find out about the existence of the new version?

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

There isn't a way right now

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> None. But for the testers to be the solution. How do they find out about the
> existence of the new version?

For dedicated testers, they could browse every day to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=updated&unreviewed=on&page=1 (or mutatis mutandis for other apps and/or localized browsing) and check if the first few items are extensions that they use.