677858 - XPCOM loading errors are hidden

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Firefox/5.0 SeaMonkey/2.2
Build ID: 20110706120824

Steps to reproduce:

I installed the mail client extension.


Actual results:

It behaved weird because was not able to load some XPCOM component, or whatever that ****.dll with NSModule export is called.


Expected results:

I should have received an error message that ****.dll, a component of Foo extension, failed to load because of <Reason>, and have been offered to disable that extension.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

What mail client extension? and which version?

Make sure all the debugging preferences are turned on:
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/setting_up_extension_development_environment#Development_preferences>
Also you should install Console² which is a replacement Error Console with more options.
<http://console2.mozdev.org/#C_latest>

Comment 2

[Alex]

What for? I'm not a developer, I'm user and must get clear (human-readable and not in console) error messages instead of absolutly weird behaviour of extension which failed to load its component and didn't report it.

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

Please direct support questions to the author of the relevant extension. Thank you.