696375 - add-ons are disabled when installed using registry prior to firefox 8 clean installation, no choice is given to enable them, there is no "Select Your Add-ons" dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 694267

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Charles Jones]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)

Steps to reproduce:

On a clean Windows OS without any versions of Firefox installed before, I installed an application. The application has a broad functionality and among many things integrates into Firefox by using add-ons technology.

The integration is made by adding a record to system registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions

After that I installed Firefox 8 beta



Actual results:

"Select Your Add-ons" dialog does not appear after Firefox 8 installation. Users have no choice to enable add-ons.

Comments: If I upgraded to Firefox to 8 beta from previous versions, or installed the application after Firefox installation, "Select Your Add-ons" dialog would appear. But all applications with add-ons that have been installed to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions prior Firefox 8 beta clean installation are silently disabled.



Expected results:

Users should be given a choice to enable add-ons after clean Firefox 8 installation.  "Select Your Add-ons" dialog should appear.

Comment 2

[rezafarshadfar1354]

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